of Director General (Courts) and other Court Executive Officers

L.N. 93 of 2018

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Civil Procedure (Regulation of Registries, Archives and Functions

of Director General (Courts) and other Court Executive Officers

(Amendment) Regulations, 2018

IN exercise of the powers conferred to him 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 rules is the Civil Procedure Title and

(Regulation of Registries, Archives and Functions of Director General commencement.

(Courts) and other Court Executive Officers (Amendment)

Regulations, 2018 and they shall be read and construed as one with the

Civil Procedure (Regulation of Registries, Archives and Functions of S.L. 12.21

Director General (Courts) and Other Court Executive Officers)

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 9th April,

2018.

Immediately after regulation 6 of the principal regulations Adds new

there shall be added following new regulations

(1) There shall be an electronic

"Running of

the online

mechanism by means of which the judicial acts

mechanism.

indicated in Schedule annexed with these regulations

may be filed online in the courts mentioned in the said

Schedule annexed with these regulations.

(2) These regulations shall apply only to those

judicial acts indicated in the electronic mechanism

mentioned in sub-regulation (1).

(3) Any advocate or legal procurator who wants

to file a judicial act, as indicated in these rules, in the

civil courts by electronic means, may do so by filing the

application online through the appropriate site and

paying the fee prescribed by law.

(1) The registrar or persons delegated by

Responsibility

of the

Registrar and him may receive judicial acts mentioned in these

date when acts

regulations filed by electronic means.

are deemed

filed.

(2) The registrar shall issue a copy of the

judicial act 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 acts filed by electronic means shall,

for all intents and purposes of law, be deemed as if they

have been filed directly in the registry of the same

courts

Provided that when a judicial act is filed by

electronic means outside registry opening hours as

established by these regulations, such act shall be

deemed to have been filed on the first following day of

the opening of the said registry.".

3. Immediately after regulation 12 of the principal

regulations, there shall the added the following new Schedule

"Schedule

(Regulation 6A)

Court

Judicial Act

The First Hall of the Civil Court

(i)

judicial letters which do not

require the administration of the

oath by the person filing such

act

The Civil Court (Commercial Section)

(i)

sworn applications

(ii)

applications that initiate a

contentious procedure.

The Courts of Magistrates (Malta)

(i)

judicial letters which do not

require the administration of the

The Courts of Magistrates (Gozo)

oath by the person filing such

act

(ii)

applications that initiate a

contentious procedure

".

4. Filing of Judicial Letters by Electronic Means in the Courts

of Malta and Gozo Regulations and the Filing of Applications by

Electronic Means in the Court of Magistrates (Malta) and the Court of

Magistrates (Gozo) in its inferior jurisdiction Regulations are hereby

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