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ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW *

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Preamble — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW * Open official source

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) [CAP. 1.

CHAPTER 1

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS

(CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW *

A law regulating the constitution and the jurisdiction of the

ecclesiastical courts and subjecting all classes of citizens, in temporal

matters, to the jurisdiction of the lay tribunals.

10th April, 1828

PROCLAMATION No. V. of 1828, as amended by Legal Notice 46 of

1965; Acts: XXXI of 1966, LVIII of 1974 and XXIV of 1975; Legal Notice

148 of 1975; and Acts I and XXIV of 1995.

Laws of Malta — Chapter 1 — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW *

Art. 1 Title. — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW * Open official source

The title of this Proclamation is Ecclesiastical Courts

(Constitution and Jurisdiction) Law.

Laws of Malta — Chapter 1 — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW *

Art. 2 Jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts and judges. — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW * Open official source

Ecclesiastical courts and judges established or appointed, or

that may be established or appointed in Malta, to decide cases

regarding the laws of the Roman Catholic Church shall have no

jurisdiction and shall not make, or attempt to make any judicial act

having civil, other than purely spiritual, effect except as may be

provided by law.

Laws of Malta — Chapter 1 — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW *

Art. 3 Documents of Ecclesiastical Courts. — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW * Open official source

Documents and Acts of Ecclesiastical Courts where the

same may, as provided in article 2 of this law, have civil effect are

admissible as proof in the same manner as provided in article 627

of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, provided that the

same are authenticated as provided from time to time by the

ecclesiastical law regulating such courts.

Repealed by: I. 1995.16.

Repealed by: I. 1995.16.

Repealed by: I. 1995.16.

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Art. 4 Personal immunity abolished. — ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS (CONSTITUTION AND JURISDICTION) LAW * Open official source

From and after the date of this Proclamation, no person

living or residing in Malta shall be exempt, by reason of his or her

rank, station, or profession, whether civil or ecclesiastical, military

or naval, or by or on account of any other privilege whatsoever,

from suing or being sued in the lay courts, in respect of any

*See the Bishop of Gozo (Extension of Privileges) Ordinance (Chapter 15).

temporal right, or from prosecuting or being prosecuted in the lay

courts, in respect of any temporal offence, or from being in all

other respects whatsoever subject to the jurisdiction of the said

courts: provided that such suit, prosecution, or other proceeding be

instituted before a lay court, judge or magistrate, competent in the

subject-matter of such suit, prosecution or proceeding.