Land Registration (Amendment) Rules, 2024

L.N. 156 of 2024

LAND REGISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 296)

Land Registration (Amendment) Rules, 2024

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 59 and 60 of

the Land Registration Act, the Minister responsible for the Land

Registry, with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for finance,

has made the following rules:-

The title of these rules is Land Registration (Amendment) Citation.

Rules, 2024 and these rules shall be read and construed as one with the

Land Registration Rules, hereinafter referred to as the "principal S.L. 296.01.

Rule 2 of the principal rules shall be amended as follows

Amends rule 2

of the principal

rules.

(a) immediately after the definition "form" there shall be

added the following new definition

" "Gozo branch" means the Lands Registry branch as

indicated in article 3 of the Act, located in the Island of

Gozo where the titles to land in Gozo and Comino shall be

registered;";

(b) immediately after the definition "land certificate"

there shall be added the following new definition

" "Malta branch" means the Land Registry branch as

indicated in article 3 of the Act, located in the Island of

Malta where the titles to land in that island shall be

registered;".

The Second Schedule to the principal rules shall be Amends the

Second

amended as follows

Schedule to the

principal rules.

(a) in item 5 thereof, immediately after the words "while

any additional applications" there shall be added the words ",

whether submitted in the Malta branch or in the Gozo branch,

and regardless of where the first application was submitted,";

(b) in item 6 thereof, immediately after the words "while

any additional applications" there shall be added the words ",

whether submitted in the Malta branch or in the Gozo branch,

and regardless of where the first application was submitted,";

(c) in item 7 thereof, immediately after the words "while

any additional applications" there shall be added the words ",

whether submitted in the Malta branch or in the Gozo branch,

and regardless of where the first application was submitted,".

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