Employment Agencies (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

L.N. 108 of 2024

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Employment Agencies (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 48(2) of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Employment Agencies Title.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Employment Agencies Regulations, S.L. 452.130.

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

In the definition "advertisement" of regulation 2 of the Amends

principal regulations the words "any radio or television station or cable regulation

the principal

network" shall be substituted by the words "any radio or television regulations.

station, cable network or on the internet".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 3 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) in the proviso of sub-regulation (1) thereof, the words

"twenty-five (25)" shall be substituted by the words "eighteen

(18)";

(b) in sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of sub-

regulation (2) thereof, shall be substituted by the following new

sub-paragraph

"(ii) publish a notice of its application in two (2)

daily Maltese newspapers, one is published in English and

one is published in Maltese, both in print and also

electronically, using a format provided by the Director;";

and

(c) immediately after paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (3)

thereof, there shall be added the following new paragraph

"(e) every entity including, but not limited to every

body, organisation, agency, foundation or any other set-up

in which the Government of Malta has control.".

Paragraph (i) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 9 of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new

paragraph

"(i) that the Director has acquired knowledge and

evidence indicating that the applicant or licensee, as the case

may be, has knowingly entered into arrangements or continued

to do business with any third party who has charged any fees or

demanded any payment from applicants in exchange for

employment services;".

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