ACT No. III of 2025 AN ACT to amend the International Protection Act, Cap. 420.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

18th February, 2025

ACT No. III of 2025

AN ACT to amend the International Protection Act, Cap. 420.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent to the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

(1) The short title of this Act is the International Protection

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

one with the International Protection Act, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal Act".

(2) The scope of this Act is to transpose the provisions of

Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing

international protection (recast).

The proviso to sub-article (3) of article 17A of the principal

Act shall be deleted.

Immediately after sub-article (3) of article 22 of the principal

Act there shall be added the following new sub-article

"(3a) The International Protection Agency shall

revoke, end or refuse to renew the subsidiary protection

status of a third-country national or stateless person, if

their misrepresentation or omission of facts, including the

use of false documents, was decisive for the granting of

subsidiary protection status.".

Sub-article (1) of article 23 of the principal Act shall be Amendment of

substituted by the following new sub-article

"(1) A person seeking international protection in

Malta in terms of article 8 shall be examined under

accelerated procedures in accordance with this article

when his application appears to be manifestly

unfounded.".

Immediately after article 23A of the principal Act there shall Addition of new

be added the following new article

Without prejudice to regulation 13 of the

Procedural Standards for Granting and Withdrawing

International Protection, the International Protection

Agency may only consider an application to be

unfounded, if it has established that the applicant does not

qualify for international protection

Provided that the International Protection

Agency shall consider an application to be manifestly

unfounded, if it has established that the applicant does not

qualify for international protection, and that the

application falls under the definition of "manifestly

unfounded" in article 2.".

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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