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Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983 (churchproperty)

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Malta Government Gazette — Legal Notice 1983 37 — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983

Preamble — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983 Open official source

L.N. 37 of 1983

LAND REGISTRATION ACf, 1981

(ACT NO. XXXV OF 1981)

Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section l4A of the Land

Registration Act, 1981 the Senior Deputy Prime Minister and Minister

of Justice and Par1iamentary Affairs has made the following order:-

l. This Order may be cited as the Compulsory Registration

(Church Property) Order, 1983 and shall come into force on the 15th

July, 1983.

Malta Government Gazette — Legal Notice 1983 37 — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983

Reg. 2 Interpretation. — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983 Open official source

In this Order -

"Ecclesiastical Entity" means any Church or other Pious or

Religious Institution;

"burthen" means any burthen on immovable property for the

celebration of Masses for the repose of souls;

"owner" means the persons referred to in section 23 of the

Land Registration Act, 1981 other than the competent authority

referred to in paragraph (c) of that section.

Malta Government Gazette — Legal Notice 1983 37 — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983

Reg. 3 Land to be registered. — Compulsory Registration (Church Property) Order, 1983 Open official source

(l) All tit1es to land belonging to or administered by any Ec-

clesiastica1 Entity on the corning into force of this Order, and all titles

to land subject to a burthen on the coming into force of this Order,

shall be registered at the Land Registry by the owners or administrators

of such land by not later than the 17th October, 1983.

(2) All titles to land which after the corning into force of this

Order shall belong to or be adrninistered by an Ecclesiastical Entity, and

all tit1es to land which may become subject to a burthen after the coming

into force of this Order, shall be registered at the Land Registry by the

owners or administrators of such land, not later than three months from

the date on which such land shall belong to, or be administered by an

Ecc1esiastical Entity or on which such burthen is imposed.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) of this article shall affect any

obligation imposed on any person by any law to register any title to

land before the lapse of the period therein indicated.

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