MT
Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 80 of 2021
CRIMINAL CODE
(CAP. 9)
Criminal Procedure (Regulation of Registries, Archives and
Functions of Director General (Courts) and Other Court Executive
Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 697 and 701 of
the Criminal Code, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Governance,
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, 2021 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
Immediately after regulation 3 of the principal regulations Adds new
regulations to
there shall be added the following new regulations
the principal
regulations.
(1) There shall be an electronic
mechanism by which the judicial acts indicated in the
Schedule may be filed online in the courts referred to in
the Schedule.
(2) These regulations apply only to judicial acts
indicated in the electronic mechanism referred to in
sub-regulation (1).
(3) Any lawyer, prosecutor in the Attorney
General's Office and member of the Police Force who
wishes to file a judicial act, as indicated in these
regulations, in criminal courts online may do so by
filing the same judicial act online through an
appropriate site and by paying the fee prescribed by
law.
(1) The registrar or his delegates may
receive judicial acts, as indicated in these regulations
filed online.
(2) The registrar shall issue a copy of the
judicial acts filed online and the copy so issued by the
registrar shall be deemed for all purposes and effects of
law to be the original.
(3) Judicial acts filed online shall be considered
for all purposes and effects of law as if they were filed
directly in the register of the same courts
Provided that where a judicial act is filed
online outside the opening hours of the register, that
judicial document shall be deemed to have been filed
on the first day following the opening of the same
register.".
3. Immediately after regulation 7 of the principal regulations
there shall be added the following new Schedule
"Schedule
(regulation 3A)
Judicial Act
Court of Magistrates (Malta) as a Court of Applications
Criminal Judicature
Replies
Notes
Court of Magistrates (Gozo) as a Court of Notes of submissions
Criminal Judicature
Court of Magistrates (Malta) as a Court of Applications
Criminal Inquiry
Replies
Notes
Court of Magistrates (Gozo) as a Court of Notes of submissions
Criminal Inquiry
Extensions
Applications
Replies
Note of pleas
Notes of submissions
Indictments
Court of Criminal Appeal (Inferior
Appeal applications
Applications
Replies
Notes
Notes of Submissions
Court of Criminal Appeal (Superior
Appeal applications
Applications
Replies
Notes
Notes of Submissions
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