Duty on Documents and Transfers (Amendment) Rules, 2004

L.N. 348 of 2004

DUTY ON DOCUMENTS AND TRANSFERS ACT

(CAP. 364)

Duty on Documents and Transfers (Amendment) Rules, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 22 of the Duty

on Documents and Transfers Act, the Prime Minister and Minister

of Finance has made the following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Duty on Documents and

andcommencement.

Transfers (Amendment) Rules, 2004, and shall be read and construed

as one with the Duty on Documents and Transfers Rules, 1993,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal rules”.

(2)

These rules shall come into force on the 30th June,

2004. Amendment ofrule

(1) Immediately after paragraph (1) of rule 10 of the

principal rules there shall be inserted the following proviso:-

Provided that no notice shall be given and no payment of

provisional duty shall be made where the Housing Authority or

the Government of Malta is the transferor or where the Enemalta

Corporation, or Water Services Corporation or Lands

Department or the Housing Authority is the transferee.

(2) For the words “prior to 1 st July, 2004” in the proviso

of paragraph 5 of rule 10 of the principal rules there shall be

substituted the words “prior to 1 st November, 2004”.

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