227 tal-1997

L.N.1:27 of 1997

NOTARIAL PROFESSION AND NOTA RIAl.

ARCHIVES ACT

(CAP. 55)

Notarial l'roresslon a nd NOlarial Archh'cs Art

(Schcdul c) (A nlendnlcn t) Rcguhl tions. 1997

IN cxcrcise of the pov.'cr:s c<mfefTcd by subseclion {2J of section

146 of the Notarial Profession and NOiarial Archh'es Act .ltIe MiniSIi!r

of Just ice and Local Councils. with the concurrence of the M inister of

Finance and Commerce. has made the following regulations:-

These regu lations may be ci ted as the NOla rial Professio n

I. (I)

and NOianaJ Arc hi\'e5 Act (Schedu le) (Amendment) R<:gulations. 1991.

and shall be read and co nstrued as one wi th the Schedul e annexed to

the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archi1le5 Act. hereina fter referred'

as" the Schedule",

(2) These regu lations shall come into force on the 1st

January. 1998.

For Part II of the Schedule there shall be substituted the " ...........

foll owing:-

" PART II

t"ees Payable in the Notarial Archh'l$

46. (i) For an y info rmal photocopy of an y notarial act or

part thereof deposited in tile Archives, there shall be cllarged

a fee offifteen cents forevery page; sohowe\'er that informal

photocopies of any such aclS which are requested by persons

who are making ~arches for a purely historica l. literary or

scie ntifi c purpose and who are authorised as such in vi rtu e o f

item 49 hereof. shall be charged at the reduced nile of fi ve

cen ts per page. and provided that regi stered ullivcr:si ty stu-

dents shall onty be charged three cents for every page.

( ii) For any info rmal co py . to be execu tcd in

handwritten or type"written foml whcne1lcr thi s is deemed

possible by the Arch i\'isl , of any notarial act or part thereof

de posi ted in the Arch ives .there shall be chalged a fee of flrty

cents per page of about one: hundred words.

(iii) Where nny suc h photocopies or co pies are to be

aUlhe ntkated by the Archivist. the fcc payable sha ll be

increased by ten cents pe r page in all C3SCS; provided tl1m

where any copies to be authenticated :tre prepared by third

p3nies. lhc fee to be ch3rged for the ir 3uthentic3 ti on shall be

twenty-five eent;; per page of abou t one hund red words.

(iv) Where in the prcp3fation o f type-w ritte n or h3nd -

written copies,expens are needed for the tran scription and/or

deciphering of the origin31 document, the fees payable to such

expe rt s s hall be c ha rged in addi t ion to the fees

abovenlCntioned.

47 . For the inspection or perusal of any notari al act kept in

the Archives a fee of twenty-five cents shall be cha rged, whereof

twen ty cen ts shall be kept by the Archives and five cents shall be

payable to the Keeper or Archi vist of such act in accordance with

the provisions of section 104 (I) of the Notarial Profession and

Nocanal Archives Act (Cap. 55).

No fees shall be levied for the inspection of any act if the

pany orders a co py or extract there of of therefrom. Provided that

if at the request of a person . a notarial act is read to that person by

a member o f the staff of the Arch ives. a fee of thin y cent;; for

every half-hour or part thereof so occ upied , shall be charged .

No fee shall be payable by a nocary who ins pects or reads

acts received by him or by a notary of whose acts he is Kee per, but

such Notary shall pay the fee due for copies if he orders a copy

thereof.

48 . Fortlle search of any act whereof the Archivist is Keeper.

a fee of ten cents shall be payable to the Archivist in respect of

each year to wh ic h the search ex tends.

49. No fee shall be charged for the inspection or reading of

any act or for any search made for a purely historical, literary or

scientific purpose, by any person specially authorised in that be-

half by the Minister responsible for justice with the adv ice of the

Nocanal Council and the Archivisl.

50. Where the Archivist is required to attend at any place

outside the Archives in conneclion with the removal of any act

therefrom a fee of five Maltese liri shall be paid to Ihe Arc hives by

the person in whose interest the OCt shall have been so removed .".

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