ACT No. XXII of 2020 AN ACT to amend the Devolution of Certain Ministerial Powers Act, Cap. 611.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

30th April, 2020

ACT No. XXII of 2020

AN ACT to amend the Devolution of Certain Ministerial Powers

Act, Cap. 611.

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 Devolution of Certain Short title.

Ministerial Powers (Amendment) Act, 2020, and this Act shall be read

and construed as one with the Devolution of Certain Ministerial Cap. 611.

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

Sub-article (2) of article 1 of the principal Act shall be deleted Amendment of

article 1 of the

and sub-article (1) shall be renumbered as article 1.

principal Act.

Article 4 of the principal Act shall be amended as follows

(a) in sub-article (2) thereof, the words "operative date"

shall be substituted by the words "coming into force of this Act";

and

(b) immediately after sub-article (2) thereof there shall

be added the following new sub-article

"(3) Any notifications, orders, schemes, rules,

regulations, appointments, delegations, directions

or authorisations lawfully made, given or issued

and anything done prior to the coming into force of

the Devolution of Certain Ministerial Powers

Act XXII of

2020. (Amendment) Act, 2020 in accordance with the

enactments which were in force prior to the 1 st

October, 2019 mentioned in the Schedules to the

principal Act, shall be deemed to be valid and

continue to be valid.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 321 of the

27th April, 2020.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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