ACT No. VI of 2016 AN ACT to amend the Sports Act, Cap. 455.

I assent.

M ARIE L OUISE

(L.S.)

C OLEIRO P RECA

President

22nd January, 2016

ACT No. VI of 2016

AN ACT to amend the Sports Act, Cap. 455.

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 Sports (Amendment) Short title and

Act, 2016, and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the commencement.

Sports Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

(2) This Act shall come into force on such date as the Minister

may by notice in the Gazette establish, and different dates may be so

established for different provisions of this Act.

In the Arrangement of Act of the principal Act, for the Amendment of

words "Establishment, functions and conduct of affairs of the Kunsill the

Arrangement of

Malti għall-Isport" there shall be substituted the words Act.

"Establishment, functions and conduct of affairs of Sport Malta".

In article 2 of the principal Act, for the definition Amendment of

article 2 of the

"Council" there shall be substituted the following

principal Act.

" "Sport Malta" means the body established in accordance

with article 4;".

The heading of Part II of the principal Act shall be Substitution of

the heading of

substituted by the following

Part II of the

principal Act.

"Establishment, functions and conduct of affairs of Sport

Malta".

Sub-article (1) of article 4 of the principal Act shall be

substituted by the following

"(1)

There shall be a body to be known as Sport Malta.".

In sub-article (4) of article 26 of the principal Act, for the

words "Kunsill Malti għall-Isport (Loan) Fund" there shall be

substituted the words "Sport Malta (Loan) Fund".

(1) For the words "the Kunsill Malti għall-Isport" or

"Kunsill Malti għall-Isport", "the Council" or "The Council", and

cognate expressions, wherever they occur in the principal Act, there

shall be substituted the words "Sport Malta".

(2) Any reference in any other law to the Kunsill Malti għall-

Isport shall be read and construed as a reference to Sport Malta.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 344 of the

13 th January, 2016.

A NĠLU F ARRUGIA

Speaker

R AYMOND S CICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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