ACT No. II of 2025 AN ACT to amend the Commissioners for Justice Act, Cap. 291.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

18th February, 2025

ACT No. II of 2025

AN ACT to amend the Commissioners for Justice Act, Cap. 291.

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 Commissioners for Justice

(Amendment) Act, 2025 and this Act shall be read and construed as

one with the Commissioners for Justice Act, hereinafter referred to as

"the principal Act".

Sub-article (6) of article 3 of the principal Act shall be

substituted by the following new sub-article

"(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-articles (4)

and (5) or of any other law, an offence referred to in sub-

article (4) shall not be taken into account for the purposes

of the issue of conduct certificates under the Conduct

Certificates Ordinance but the Registrar of the Tribunal or

any other person as may be designated by regulations made

by the Minister shall keep a register of all convictions or

voluntary payments of penalties in respect of offences

referred to in sub-article (4) and such register shall be

accessible to the Executive Police, to the Registrar,

Criminal Courts and Tribunals, to the Armed Forces of

Malta and to any other public authority, in the exercise of

their functions at law, as the Minister may by regulations

designate. Requests for access to the register shall be

submitted in writing to the Registrar of the Tribunal or

other person granting access, as the case may be, who shall

keep a record thereof, including the dates when the request

was received and when access was provided. The Registrar

of the Tribunal or other person granting access, as the case

may be, shall keep such records for three (3) years from the

date of such request

Provided that the public authority requesting

access shall have in place appropriate safeguards for the

rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation in particular

to purpose limitation, integrity and confidentiality, as

required pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016

on the protection of natural persons with regard to the

processing of personal data and on the free movement of

S.L. 586.08. such data, or pursuant to the Data Protection (Processing of

Personal Data by Competent Authorities for the Purposes of

the Prevention, Investigation, Detection or Prosecution of

Criminal Offences or the Execution of Criminal Penalties)

Regulations.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 310 of the

12th February, 2025.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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