Regulations, 2019

L.N. 247 of 2019

RELETTING OF URBAN PROPERTY (REGULATION)

ORDINANCE

(CAP. 69)

Proceedings of the Rent Regulation Board (Amendment)

Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 45 of the

Reletting of Urban Property (Regulation) Ordinance the Minister for

Justice, Culture and Local Government has made the following

regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Proceedings of the Citation and

Rent Regulation Board (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 and they shall commencement.

be read and construed as one with the Proceedings of the Rent

Regulation Board Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal S.L. 69.01.

regulations".

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

September 2019.

Immediately after the definition "Board" there shall be Amends

added the following new definition

" "by electronic means" means online;.

Immediately after regulation 3 of the principal regulations Adds new

there shall be added the following new regulations

" Running of

(1) There shall be an electronic mechanism

the online

by means of which applications that initiate a procedure

system.

or a reply thereto, may be filed by electronic means in the

Board.

(2) These regulations shall apply only to those

acts indicated in the electronic mechanism mentioned in

regulation 3A(1).

(3) Any advocate or legal procurator who wants

to file these acts, as indicated in these regulations, by

electronic means, may do so by filing such acts online

through the appropriate site and paying the prescribed

fee.

(1) The Registrar or persons delegated by

Responsibility

him may receive acts filed by electronic means.

(2) The Registrar shall issue a copy of the acts

online acts are

filed by electronic means and the said copies issued by

the Registrar shall for all intents and purposes of law be

considered as the original.

(3) Acts filed by electronic means shall, for all

intents and purposes of law, be deemed filed as if they

have been filed directly in the Registry of the Board

Provided that when an act is filed by

electronic means outside registry opening hours as

established by the Code of 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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