Bye-Laws, 2012

L.C.B.L. 30/01/2012

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Rental of Garages in Civic Centre

(Ta’ Kerċem Local Council)

Bye-Laws, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 34, 35, and 36

of the Local Councils Act, the Ta’ Kerċem Local Council has made

the following Bye-Laws

1 The title of these Bye-Laws is Rental of Garages in Citation and

Civic Centre (Ta’ Kerċem Local Council) Bye-Laws, 2012.

1.2 These Bye-Laws shall come into force one month after

their publication in the Gazette.

1 In these Bye-Laws, unless the context otherwise

requires

‘‘the Act’’ means the Local Councils Act;

‘‘tenant’’ means any signatory who is renting the garage;

‘‘the Council’’ means the Ta’ Kerċem Local Council;

‘‘owner’’ means the Ta’ Kerċem Local Council.

2.2 In these Bye-Laws, any expression which is defined in

the Act shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Act.

3 The owner shall sign a contract with the tenant, where

the owner gives and grants upon rental in favour of the tenant

who accepts in taking the garage and under the same title of rent

without its own air space.

4 The lessee shall be solely responsible to pay for expenses

of any nature related to upgrading or maintenance of the premises

and any such upgrading or maintenance remains in the property to

the benefit of the lessor, who shall not be bound to reimburse the

lessee for such expenses incurred.

1

These garages shall only be rented after a public call for

Call for tender.

tenders.

5.2 The contract mentioned in bye-law 3 is valid for a

Validity of contract.

period of five (5) years. After these five (5) years, another call for

tenders shall be issued.

6 The rates of garage rental in the call for tenders shall not

Rates of rental.

be less than

(a) nine hundred euros (€900) for one (1) car garage,

for one year;

(b) two thousand euros (€2,000) for three (3) car

garage, for one year.

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