Executive Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

L.N. 300 of 2019

CRIMINAL CODE

(CAP. 9)

Criminal Procedure (Regulation of Registries, Archives and

Functions of Director General (Courts) and Other Court

Executive Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 697 of the

Criminal Code, the Minister for Justice, Culture and Local

Government, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Criminal Procedure Citation.

(Regulation of Registries, Archives and Functions of Director General

(Courts) and Other Court Executive Officers) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2019 and these regulations shall be read and construed as

one with the Criminal Procedure (Regulation of Registries, Archives, S.L. 9.09.

Functions of Director General (Courts) and Other Court Executive

Officers) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Immediately after regulation 4 of the principal regulations, Adds new

there shall be added the following new regulation

(1) Saving the provisions of regulations 3

and 4, a judicial act or a written pleading may be filed in

the registry of the Criminal Courts and Tribunals, Malta,

for onward transmission by the registrar of that court to

the registrar of the Gozo Courts and Tribunals, Gozo

indicated in the judicial act or written pleading.

(2) It shall be sufficient for all purposes of law for

a copy of a judicial act or written pleading to be

electronically transmitted to the registrar Gozo Courts

and Tribunals indicated in the judicial act or written

pleading.

(3) The registrar receiving the electronically

transmitted copy as aforesaid, shall acknowledge its

receipt by return e-mail to the registrar sending the

scanned copy of the judicial act or written pleading.

(4) If it is required that an officer effects service

of the electronic copy of a judicial act or written pleading

as aforesaid, the officer shall deliver to the registrar of the

Courts and Tribunals, Gozo, the certificate of service,

duly confirmed on oath before the registrar himself who

shall transmit it to the registrar, Criminal Courts and

Tribunals in Malta indicated in the judicial act or written

pleading and vice-versa. Such delivery may also be made

by electronic means and the registrar receiving the

certificate of service as aforesaid shall acknowledge its

receipt by return e-mail to the registrar sending the

certificate of service.

(5) The provisions of sub-regulations (1) to (4),

both inclusive, shall mutatis mutandis apply when a

judicial act or a written pleading is filed in the registry of

the Gozo Courts and Tribunals for onward transmission

to the Criminal Courts and Tribunals in Malta indicated

in the judicial act or written pleading.

(6) The date of filing shall be the date when the

judicial act or written pleading was first filed in the

registry of the Criminal Courts and Tribunals, Malta and

not when the judicial act or written pleading was received

by the registry of the Gozo Courts and Tribunals and

vice-versa. ".

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