MT
329 tal-2019
Statutory Text (1 Articles)
L.N. 329 of 2019
STATE ADVOCATE ACT
(CAP. 603)
Commencement Notice
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 1 of the State
Advocate Act, the Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government
has established the 18th th December 2019 as the date of the coming
into force, in addition to article 3(a), (b) and (c) brought into force on
the 29 th July 2019 by virtue of Legal Notice 174 of 2019, of the
remaining provisions of the State Advocate Act except for article 31,
which article 31 amends the Attorney General Ordinance and out of
which article 31 only the words "Articles 3 and 4 of the principal
Ordinance shall be re-numbered as articles 4 and 5 respectively" shall
come into force on the 18 th December 2019.
The said coming into force shall be subject to the following
transitory provisions and to any other transitory provisions as it may
from time to time be deemed necessary to provide by further notice
(1) Further to the amendments to the Code of Organization and
Civil Procedure made by Part III of the State Advocate Act, judicial
acts and actions pending on the date of the coming into force provided
for by this notice and having been commenced by or against the
Attorney General in his representative capacity of the Government in
terms of article 181B of the said Code and which have not yet become
res judicata or of which notice has been given to the Attorney General
by means of a judicial act including a judicial act filed in terms of
article 460 of the said Code shall be continued by or against the State
Advocate so however that no formality shall be required and no defect
or nullity shall ensue by reason of the said change or of anything done
or omitted to be done as a consequence thereof;
(2) Judicial acts and actions pending on the date of the coming
into force provided for in this notice which are filed by or against the
Attorney General in relation to the performance of the functions of his
office other than in his representative capacity of Government under
article 181B of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure shall be
continued by or against the Attorney General who may for the said
purpose avail himself of the services of the Office of the State
Advocate.
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