of Malta and Gozo Regulations, 2016

L.N. 229 of 2016

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Filing of Judicial Letters by Electronic Means in the Courts

of Malta and Gozo Regulations, 2016

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 1009A of the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure, the Minister for Justice,

Culture and Local Government has made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Filing of Citation and

Judicial Letters by Electronic Means in the Courts of Malta and Gozo commencement.

Regulations, 2016.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 30th June,

2016.

For the purposes of these regulations "by electronic Interpretation.

means" shall mean online.

(1)

There shall be an electronic mechanism by means Running of the

of which judicial letters that do not require the administration of the online system.

oath may be filed online in the Courts of Malta and Gozo.

(2) These regulations apply only to judicial letters which do

not require the administration of the oath by the person filing such

act.

(3) Any advocate or legal procurator who wishes to file a

judicial letter, as indicated in these regulations, in the Courts of Malta

and Gozo, by electronic means, may do so by filing the judicial letter

online through the appropriate site and paying the prescribed fee.

(1)

The Registrar or persons delegated by him may Responsibility

of the Registrar

receive judicial letters filed by electronic means.

and date when

acts are deemed

(2) The Registrar shall issue a copy of the judicial letters filed filed.

online and the said copy issued by the Registrar shall for all intents

and purposes of law be considered as the original.

(3) Judicial letters filed by electronic means shall, for all

intents and purposes of law, be deemed as though they have been filed

directly in the Registry of the same Court

Provided that when a judicial letter is filed by electronic

means outside registry opening hours as established by the Code of Cap. 12.

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Organization and Civil Procedure, such act shall be deemed to have

been filed on the first following day of the opening of the said

Registry.

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