Promotion of Energy from Renewable Sources

L.N. 471 of 2014

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Promotion of Energy from Renewable Sources

(Amendment) Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 28(1) of the Malta

Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Energy and Health, after

consultation with the Malta Resources Authority, has made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Promotion of Energy

from Renewable Sources (Amendment) Regulations, 2014, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Promotion of

Energy from Renewable Sources Regulations, hereinafter referred to

as "the principal regulations".

The first first proviso to sub-regulation (5) of regulation 17

of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new

proviso

"Provided that, by the 31st December 2014, where

appropriate, provisions for the use of minimum levels of energy

from renewable sources are introduced in building regulations

or building codes or by other means with equivalent effect, for

the construction of new buildings and in existing buildings that

undergo major renovation. Those minimum levels may be

fulfilled, inter alia, through district heating and cooling

produced using a significant proportion of renewable energy

sources:".

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