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ACT No. X of 2019 AN ACT to further amend the Code of Police Laws, Cap. 10.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
I assent.
(L.S.)
MARIE-LOUISE
COLEIRO PRECA
President
29th March, 2019
ACT No. X of 2019
AN ACT to further amend the Code of Police Laws, Cap. 10.
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:-
The short title of this Act is the Code of Police Laws Short title.
(Amendment No. 2) Act, 2019 and this Act shall be read and
construed as one with the Code of Police Laws, hereinafter referred to Cap. 10.
as "the Code".
Article 114 of the Code shall be substituted by the
114. (1)
The owner or the tenant of a house and,
or the Administrator of a Condominium shall, within
thirty calendar days of a notice issued by the Electoral
Office, mark in a visible place each external door, either
with the number provided to them or in any other form of
their own choice, the next consecutive number to such
door, and in the case where doors are added between
doors which have already been given a number, there shall
be added to every repeated number, a letter of the
alphabet, in alphabetical order, starting from the first
letter. The numbers previously assigned shall be removed
under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by
the Electoral Office in such notice.
(2) It shall be unlawful to deface or destroy the
number or letter of any door.
(3) In the case where the owner or the tenant of a
house and, or the Administrator of a Condominium fail to
comply with the provisions of sub-article (1), the Electoral
Office shall have the right to affix the assigned numbers in
the presence of a Police officer.
(4) Any owner or tenant of a house and, or the
Administrator of a Condominium who fails to comply
with the provisions of sub-articles (1) and (2), shall be in
breach of the law and liable, when found guilty, to a fine
of twenty-five euro (€25).
(5)
In the case it is decided that numbers are
allocated to properties on a private road, such road shall
remain a private road.".
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 211 of the
26th March, 2019.
ANĠLU FARRUGIA
Speaker
RAYMOND SCICLUNA
Clerk of the House of Representatives
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