Rent Subsidy (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

L.N. 91 of 2025

MALTA ENTERPRISE ACT

(CAP. 463)

Rent Subsidy (Amendment) Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 5 of the Malta

Enterprise Act, the Minister responsible for Malta Enterprise with the

concurrence of the Minister for Finance, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Rent Subsidy Citation.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Rent Subsidy Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 463.33.

referred to as the "principal regulations".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

substituted by the following new regulation

Where the Corporation is satisfied that an

"Assistance to

eligible undertaking requires support to rent or acquire

industrial premises for developing a business activity, the

Corporation may provide assistance in the form of cash

grant and, or tax credits not exceeding fifty percent (50%)

of the eligible costs, in accordance with the terms and

conditions set out in the Guidelines. The Corporation

shall only consider assistance to cover the cost for the

rental or acquisition of industrial premises when the

request for support is submitted to the Corporation within

the parameters established in the Guidelines.".

3. Regulation 3A of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

substituted by the following new regulation

The value of assistance being awarded in

accordance with these regulations shall be limited to three

hundred thousand euro (€300,000) over any rolling period

of three (3) years for every undertaking. Any assistance

approved shall be disbursed in equivalent amounts not

exceeding fifty thousand euro (€50,000) per annum over a

period of six (6) years, of which the first three (3) years

shall be in the form of cash grants and the subsequent

three (3) years in the form of tax credits.".

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