Petitions (Local Tribunals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 144 of 2007

COMMISSIONERS FOR JUSTICE ACT

(CAP. 291)

Petitions (Local Tribunals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 13 of the

Commissioners for Justice Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister

for Justice and Home Affairs, has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Petitions (Local Tribunals)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2007 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Petitions (Local Tribunal) Regulations, 2005 hereinafter

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be renumbered

as subregulation (1) thereof and immediately after subregulation (1) as

renumbered there shall be inserted the following new subregulation>–

“(2) (a) Following the presentation of a petition in the

Registry of the Board, the Tribunal proceedings referring to such

contravention shall be suspended for all effects and purposes of

law, until such date when the petition is decided upon.

(b) The prescriptive period in the case of

contraventions shall also be suspended as from the date when the

petition is filed and until that same petition is decided upon.

(c) In the event that the petition is refused, a new

summons shall be issued.”.

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