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ACT No. XII of 2022 AN ACT to further amend the Criminal Code, Cap. 9.
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
I assent.
(L.S.)
GEORGE VELLA
President
18th October, 2022
ACT No. XII of 2022
AN ACT to further amend the Criminal Code, Cap. 9.
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 Criminal Code (Amendment Short title.
No. 4) Act, 2022 and this Act shall be read and construed as one with
the Criminal Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Code".
In sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of sub-article (9) of Amendment of
article 575 of the Code the words "to the date of the next hearing." article
the Code.
shall be substituted by the words "to the date of the next hearing;" and
immediately after there shall be added the following new sub-
paragraphs
"(v) for such period during which the court cannot
hear the case due to circumstances regarding the health
of the accused resulting from self-harm by the accused
Provided that a period of suspension under this
sub-paragraph shall in any case last for two months or
be equivalent to the time during which the effects of the
self-harm inflicted by the accused persist, whichever is
the longer;
(vi) without prejudice and subordinately to the
application of the preceding sub-paragraphs, when the
court, after having appointed the case for hearing shall
have cancelled that appointment for a reason
exclusively attributable to the accused or to one or more
of the accused, for such period until the case is heard
Provided that a period of suspension under this
sub-paragraph shall not exceed two months every time
and in any case it shall not exceed a maximum of six
months in respect of all instances when this sub-
paragraph is applied in the same case.".
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 33 of the 17th
October, 2022.
ANĠLU FARRUGIA
Speaker
RAYMOND SCICLUNA
Clerk of the House of Representatives
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