Regulations, 2000

L.N.152 of 2000

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Local Councils (Procedures) (Amendments) (No.2)

Regulations, 2000

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sub-article (3) of article 72

of the Local Councils Act, the Minister for Justice and Local

Government, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, has made

the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Local Councils Citation and

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commencement.

(Procedures) (Amendments) (No.2) RegulatIOns, 2000, and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Local Councils (Procedures), L.N. ISO of 1996.

Regulations, 1996, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

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

September, 2000.

Immediately at the end of the Second Schedule to the principal Amends Second

=~tOthe

regulations, there shall be added the following:-

regulations.

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P3. IX General Conditions of

L.C.P.3/96

Contract shall be amended as follows:-

Local Councils

(Tendering)

1. In A. Services, for item 41

Procedures, 1996.

there shall be substituted the

following:-

"41. Settlement of Disputes

Any dispute, controversy or claim

arising out of or relating to this contract, or

the breach, termination or invalidity thereof,

shall be settled by arbitration in accordance

with the rules of the Malta Arbitration

Centre as at present in force.

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(a) The appointing authority and

administrator shall be the Malta

Arbitration Centre;

(b)

The number of arbitrators shall

be one;

(c) The place of arbitration shall

be Malta;

(d) The language to be used in the

arbitral proceedings shall be Maltese,

unless otherwise stated; and

(e) The applicable substantive law

shall be the Laws of Malta." .

2. In B. Goods, in item 28 for the

words "Notwithstanding any other agreement

or condition to the contrary in case of any

dispute the Maltese Courts shall have

exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide on

the merits of the matter in dispute." there shall

be substituted the following

"Any dispute, controversy or claim

arising out of or relating to this contract,

or the breach, termination or invalidity

thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in

accordance with the rules of the Malta

Arbitration Centre as at present in force.

(a) The appointing authority and

administrator shall be the Malta

Arbitration Centre;

(b)

The number of arbitrators shall

be one;

(c) The place of arbitration shall

be Malta;

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(d) The language to be used in the

arbitral proceedings shall be Maltese,

unless otherwise stated; and

(e) The applicable substantive law

shall be the Laws of Malta.".

In C. Leasing of Immovable

Property, immediately after item 20 there

shall be added the following new item 21:-

"21.

Settlement of Disputes.

Any dispute, controversy or claim

arising out of or relating to this contract,

or the breach, termination or invalidity

thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in

accordance with the rules of the Malta

Arbitration Centre as at present in force.

(a) The appointing authority and

administrator shall be the Malta

Arbitration Centre;

The number of arbitrators shall

(b)

be one;

(c) The place of arbitration shall

be Malta;

(d) The language to be used in the

arbitral proceedings shall be Maltese,

unless otherwise stated; and

(e) The applicable substantive law

shall be the Laws of Malta." .

InD. Management ofImmovable

Property, immediately after item 18 there

shall be added the following new item 19:-

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"19

Settlement of Disputes.

Any dispute, controversy or claim

arising out of or relating to this contract,

or the breach, termination or invalidity

thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in

accordance with the rules of the Malta

Arbitration Centre as at present in force.

(a) The appointing authority and

administrator shall be the Malta

Arbitration Centre;

(b)

The number of arbitrators shall

be one;

(c) The place of arbitration shall

be Malta;

(d) The language to be used in the

arbitral proceedings shall be Maltese,

unless otherwise stated; and

(e) The applicable substantive law

shall be the Laws of Malta.".

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