ACT No. XIV of 2016 AN ACT to further amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

4th March, 2016

ACT No. XIV of 2016

AN ACT to further amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

(1) The short title of this Act is the Civil Code Short title and

(Amendment No. 2) Act, 2016, and this Act shall be read and commencement.

construed as one with the Civil Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Cap.16.

Code".

(2) This Act shall come into force on 1st April, 2016.

In sub-article (3) of article 495 of the Code, including the Amendment of

provisos thereto, for the words "ten years", wherever they occur, there article

495 of

the Code.

shall be substituted the words "three years".

In sub-article (1) of article 495A of the Code, for the words Amendment of

article 495A of

"ten years" there shall be substituted the words "three years".

the Code.

Article 495B of the Code shall be substituted by the Substitution of

article 495B of

following

the Code.

" Transitory

495B. (1)The period of three years

provision in

stipulated in articles 495(3) and 495A(1) shall

respect of

apply in respect of all co-owned property to

articles 495 and

495A and

which the said sub-articles apply which on or

obligation to

register under

after the 1st April 2016 shall have been held in

the Land

common by the co-owners thereof for a period

Registration

Act.

of at least three years.

(2) The periods of ten years previously

provided for in articles 495(3) and 495A(1)

(prior to their amendment) and of five years

previously provided for in article 495B (prior to

its substitution) respectively and as in force prior

to the 1st April 2016 shall no longer apply as

from the 1st April 2016.

(3) Immovable property transferred on

the basis of a court decision given under article

494(1) and not being situated within a land

registration area for the purposes of the Land

Registration Act shall, notwithstanding the

provisions of any other law, be deemed to

constitute a land registration area for the

purposes of the said Act and it shall be

registered in the Land Registry by the Notary

who publishes the deed of transfer at the expense

of the transferee.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 363 of the

1st March, 2016.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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