INFERIOR COURTS (RE-DESIGNATION) ACT (re-designation)

INFERIOR COURTS (RE-DESIGNATION)

CHAPTER 340

INFERIOR COURTS (RE-DESIGNATION) ACT

To provide for the mode in which the Inferior Courts shall be styled.

(1st October, 1990) *

Enacted by ACT VIII of 1990 .

This Act may be cited as the Inferior Courts (Re-

designation) Act.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Court

of Magistrates of Judicial Police for the Island of Malta, the Court

of Magistrates of Judicial Police for the Islands of Gozo and

Comino, and the Court of Judicial Police shall hereinafter be styled

as the Court of Magistrates (Malta) or the Court of Magistrates

(Gozo), as the case may be

Sohowever that in any act filed in any such court in its

criminal jurisdiction there shall be stated in such act that it is being

filed in such court as a Court of Criminal Judicature or as a Court

of Criminal Inquiry as the case may be, and in any act filed in the

Court of Magistrates (Gozo) in its civil jurisdiction there shall be

stated that such act is being filed in its inferior jurisdiction, or in its

superior civil or commercial jurisdiction, or as a court of voluntary

jurisdiction, or in its inferior or superior appellate jurisdiction, as

the case may be.

*See section 1 of the Act as originally enacted, part of which has been omitted under

the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980, and Legal Notice No. 142 of 1990.