Consumer Claims Tribunal (Amendment) Rules, 2000

L.N. 284 of 2000

CONSUMER AFFAIRS ACT

(CAP. 378)

Consumer Claims Tribunal (Amendment) Rules, 2000

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 27 of the Consumer

Affairs Act, the Minister for Economic Services, with the concurrence

of the Minister of Justice and Local Government and of the Minister of

Finance, has made the following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Consumer Claims Tribunal

(Amendment) Rules, 2000, and they shall be read and construed as one

with the Consumer Claims Tribunal Rules, 1996, hereinafter referred

to as "the principal rules" .

These rules shall come into force on the 1 st January,

(2)

2001.

Rule 3 of the principal rules shall be amended as follows

(a) in subrule 3.1, for the words" a note by the Director of

Consumer Affairs stating that the claim has been referred to the

Director" there shall be substituted the words " a note by the

Director of Consumer Affairs or by a registered consumer

association, as the case may be, stating that the claim has been

referred to the Director or to the registered consumer association";

(b) in subrule 3.4, for the words "five hundred Maltese liri"

wherever they occur there shall be substituted the words "one

thousand five hundred Maltese liri".

In rule 5 of the principal rules, in subrules 5.1 and 5.3 thereof,

for the words "five hundred Maltese liri" wherever they occur there

shall be substituted the words "one thousand five hundred Maltese liri".

In subrule 16.7. of rule 16 of the principal rules for the words

"in such an instance that case shall not be referred to the Director in

accordance with the provisions of subsection (4) of section 23" there

shall be substituted the words" in such an instance that case shall not

be referred to the Director or to the registered consumer association, as

the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of article 23 (4)".

(1) For Tariff A of the First Schedule to the principal rules Amends the First

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there shall be substituted the following

rules.

''TARIFF A

Fees payable in the Registry of a Tribunal

1. For filing a notice of claim or a reply containing a

counterclaim

1.1. where the amount claimed does not

exceed Lm250

Lm3.oo,0

1.2. where the amount claimed does not

exceed Lm500

Lm5.oo,0

1.3. where the amount claimed does not

exceed Lml000

Lm8.oo,0

1.4. where the amount claimed exceeds

Lml000

LmlO.oo,O

2. For filing a reply provided it does

not include a counterclaim

Lm3.oo,0

3. For the filing of any application or

any other act including the filing of a technical

referee's report

LmO.75,0

4. For every service

Lml.oo,O

5. For every copy, for every page of

the original

LmO.25,0

For each definitive decision of a

Tribunal -

6.1.

In respect of the first Lm500

Lm4.oo,0

6.2. In respect of any value in

excess of Lm500

Lm8.oo,0".

(2) Immediately after Tariff B of the First Schedule to the

principal rules, there shall be added the following new tariff:-

"TARIFFC

Fees payable in the Registry of the Court of Appeal

1. For the filing of an application of appeal

Lm 15.00,0" .

6. In Form 1 in the Second Schedule to the principal rules, for

the words "Lm5OO" wherever they occur there shall be substituted the

words "Lm 1,500".