ACT No. XXXIV of 2024 AN ACT to amend the Attorney General Ordinance, Cap. 90.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

25th October, 2024

ACT No. XXXIV of 2024

AN ACT to amend the Attorney General Ordinance, Cap. 90.

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 Attorney General Ordinance Short title.

(Amendment) Act, 2024 and this Act shall be read and construed as

one with the Attorney General Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as the Cap. 90.

"principal law".

Article 4 of the principal law shall be amended as follows

Amendment of

article 4 of the

principal law.

(a) sub-article (1) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new sub-article

"(1) There shall also be officers to be called Deputy

Attorney General and other Officers of the Attorney

General who shall exercise and perform all such powers,

functions and duties as may be delegated or assigned to

them by the Attorney General."; and

(b) in sub-article (2) thereof the words "the Deputy

Attorney General" shall be substituted by the words "the Deputy

Attorneys General".

Article 5 of the principal law shall be substituted by the

following new article

(1) The Attorney General and the Deputy

Attorneys General and other Officers of the Attorney

General shall have the power to administer oaths.

(2) Wherever a law provides that an oath is to be

taken before the Attorney General, such oath may also be

taken before the Deputy Attorneys General or before

another officer of the Attorney General, as delegated by

the Attorney General.".

4. In article 6 of the principal law the words "the Deputy

Attorney General" shall be substituted by the words "a Deputy

Attorney General".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 265 of the

21st October, 2024.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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