Malta Residency Visa Agency (Establishment)

L.N. 111 of 2019

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 595)

Malta Residency Visa Agency (Establishment)

(Amendment) Order, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 26 of the

Public Administration Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

order:-

The title of this order is the Malta Residency Visa Agency

(Establishment) (Amendment) Order, 2019 and this order shall be read

and construed as one with the Malta Residency Visa Agency

(Establishment) (Amendment) Order, hereinafter referred to as the

"principal order".

Sub-articles (1) and (2) of article 8 of the principal order

shall be substituted by the following

"(1) As a special arrangement in terms of article 26(2)(d)

in conjunction with article 39 of the Act, the Agency shall have a

separate Board for approving or refusing recommendations of

residence certificates submitted to it by the Chief Executive

Officer. The number of Approvals Boards shall be established by

the Minister and one of the Boards shall be known as the

"Approvals Board – First Division".

The Chief Executive Officer shall be required to submit to

the Board of Approval all applications.

(2) The distribution of applications among the Boards

shall be carried out by the Chief Executive Officer, accordingly,

so that each Board, as far as possible, is assigned an equal

number of cases. Each Board shall be composed of a

Chairperson and four (4) other members all appointed by the

Minister, one (1) of those members shall be chosen to act as

secretary where his role is to make the necessary preparations for

Board meetings and to take minutes of those meetings.".

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