Closure of the Public Registry Order, 2020

L.N. 470 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Closure of the Public Registry Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Closure of the Public

commencement.

Registry Order, 2020.

(2)

This order shall come into force on the 16th November,

2020.

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

"Public Registry" means the Public Registry Office in

Malta open for the registration of causes of preference among

creditors, for the enrolment of acts requiring registration in order

to have effect in regard to third parties, and for all other

registrations required by law;

"Superintendent" shall have the same meaning as assigned

to it in the Public Health Act.

The Superintendent hereby orders the closure of the Legal

Section within the Public Registry which order shall remain in force

until the 23rd November of the year 2020, so however that notes for

the registration of any cause of preference among creditors, notes of

reference and notes for the enrolment of an act shall be received again

by this section on the 24th of November of the year 2020. Provided

that all legal terms for the registration of such notes, as required by any

law, shall be deemed to be suspended during such time as this section

is closed, and the remaining term shall start to run again as from the

24th of November of the year 2020

Provided that the Public Registry shall remain open in those

cases relating to judgments or decrees delivered by the courts of justice.

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