COMMISSIONER OF LAND ORDINANCE

COMMISSIONER OF LAND

CHAPTER 169

COMMISSIONER OF LAND ORDINANCE

To provide that certain rights and liabilities of the Accountant General

shall be transferred to the Commissioner of Land.

9th February, 1962

ORDINANCE XI of 1962, as amended by Acts XXII of 1991, III of 2004,

XIV of 2006, XXVIII of 2007 and XXVI of 2015.

The short title of this Ordinance is the Commissioner of

Land Ordinance.

All rights and liabilities, whether vested or contingent,

relating to immovable property belonging to, or possessed, held or

administered by the Government, or relating to the administration

thereof, to which the Accountant General was entitled or subject

immediately before the date of commencement of this Ordinance

shall by virtue of this Ordinance be transferred to the

Commissioner of Land

Provided that in respect of such land that may from time to

time be specified in an Order of the President published in the

Gazette, the Malta Development Corporation established under

article 3 of the Malta Development Corporation Act shall exercise

the rights and responsibilities referred to in this article, and the

provisions of the Land (Compulsory Eviction) Act, and the

Disposal of Government Land Act, shall for the purpose of any

such land be read and construed as if any reference therein to the

Commissioner of Land were a reference to the Chairman of the

Malta Development Corporation, and the provisions of article 181,

Subtitle VI and VII of Title VIII of Part I of Book Second, article

590(2), article 627, article 637, article 837(2) and article 873 of the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure shall apply, in relation to

such land, to the Malta Development Corporation and the Chairman

of the Malta Development Corporation, as the case may be

Provided further that with effect from such date as the

Minister responsible for economic affairs may by notice in the

Gazette appoint, the rights and responsibilities exercised by the

Malta Development Corporation or its Chairman under this Act or

any other law specified in the foregoing proviso of this Act,

including any litigious rights arising therefrom, shall, in respect of

such land as shall have been or shall from time to time be specified

in an Order of the President published in terms of the same proviso,

vest in any other authority or person designated by regulations

prescribed for this purpose in virtue of this proviso by the said

Minister to be the competent authority in place of the Malta

Development Corporation, or in the Chairman of the said

competent authority as the case may be

CO MMISSIO N ER O F LAN D

Provided further that in respect of such immovable assets

that may from time to time be specified in an order made by the

President and published in the Gazette in terms of article 12 of the

Housing Authority Act, and any other immovable assets acquired

and administered in terms of paragraph (a) of article 4(2) of the

said Act, the Housing Authority established under article 3 of the

Housing Authority Act shall exercise the rights and responsibilities

referred to in this article, and the provisions of the Land

(Compulsory Eviction) Act shall for the purpose of any such land

be read and construed as if any reference therein to the

Commissioner of Land were a reference to the Chairman of the

Housing Authority, and the provisions of article 181, of Subtitle VI

and VII of Title VIII of Part I of Book Second, article 590(2),

article 627, article 637, article 837(2) and article 873 of the Code of

Organization and Civil Procedure shall apply, in relation to such

immovable assets, to the Housing Authority and the Chairman of

the Housing Authority, as the case may be.

(1) The Minister responsible for land may, with effect from

such date as he may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint, assign any of

the duties in the exercise of the rights and responsibilities of the

Commissioner of Land in accordance with article 2, to any other

person to be designated in such notice, which duties shall be

specifically designated in such notice.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subarticle (1), all rights

and responsibilities to which the duties assigned in accordance with

subarticle (1) relate shall, by virtue of article 2, remain vested in

the Commissioner of Land.