Mutual Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession

L.N. 170 of 2004

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Mutual Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 81A and 87A of

the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, the Deputy Prime

Minister and Minister of Justice and Home Affairs has made the

following regulations>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Mutual Recognition

of Qualifications of Legal Profession (Amendment) Regulations,

2004 and they shall be read and construed as one with the Mutual

Recognition of Qualifications of Legal Profession Regulations, 2002,

2002. hereinafter in these regulations referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 1st

May, 2004.

For sub-regulation (1) of regulation 4 of the principal

Amends regulation

regulations, there shall be substituted the following>–

“(1) A legal professional, who wishes to establish himself

and practise the profession of lawyer in Malta, although he

obtained his professional qualification in his home Agreement

State, shall register with the designated authority.”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 11 of the principal

Amends regulation

regulations, for the words “to an evaluation” there shall be substituted

the words “to a verfication”.

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