Community Malta Agency (Establishment)

L.N. 60 of 2026

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 595)

Community Malta Agency (Establishment)

(Amendment) Order, 2026

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 26 of the

Public Administration Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Community Malta

commencement.

Agency (Establishment) (Amendment) Order, 2026 and this order shall

be read and construed as one with the Community Malta Agency

(Establishment) Order, hereinafter referred to as the "principal order".

(2) This order shall come into force within two (2) months

from its publication in the Gazette.

In the Maltese version only, article 1 of the principal order

shall be substituted by the following new article

" Titolu.

1. It-titolu ta’ dan l-ordni huwa l-Ordni dwar

it-Twaqqif tal-Aġenzija Komunità Malta.".

In the Maltese version only of the principal order, the words

"Aġenzija Community Malta", wherever they occur, shall be

substituted by the words "Aġenzija Komunità Malta".

Article 2 of the principal order shall be amended as

follows

(a) immediately after the definition "Agency" there shall

be added the following new definition

" "Consolidated Fund" means the Consolidated

Fund established by article 102 of the Constitution;";

(b) the definitions "Agent", "applicant" and "exceptional

direct investment" shall be deleted;

(c)

immediately after the definition "Minister" there shall

be added the following new definition

" "National Development and Social Fund" means

the National Development and Social Fund established

by article 3 of the National Development and Social

Fund (Establishment as an Agency) Order;".

Article 10 of the principal order shall be substituted by the Substitutes

article 10 of the

following new article

principal order.

(1) The Agency shall retain fifteen

percent (15%) from contributions received by means of

the applications for naturalisation under the Granting of

Citizenship by Naturalisation on the basis of Merit

Regulations, as in force on 29th April 2025, for

applications which have been approved for

naturalisation prior to 29th April 2025 and shall

allocate the remaining balance as follows

(a) thirty per cent (30%) to the

Consolidated Fund;

(b) seventy per cent (70%) to the National

Development and Social Fund.

(2) The funds received by the National

Development and Social Fund in accordance with this

order shall be used for the purposes established in the

National Development and Social Fund (Establishment

as an Agency) Order

Provided that the National Development and

Social Fund when allocating funds derived from the

Agency, shall expressly indicate that such funds have

been provided by the Agency.

(3) The Agency shall hereby have the power

and authority to use any operating profit of the Agency

for the purposes of sponsoring or funding any worthy

social or philanthropic causes that it may identify from

time to time.".

6. Article 12 of the principal order shall be deleted.

Deletes article

12 of the

principal order.

7. Article 13 of the principal order shall be substituted by the Substitutes

article 13 of the

following new article

principal order.

Lawyers, legal procurators, public officers

and public employees performing duties as officers at

the Agency, shall have the power to administer oaths.".

8. The Schedule to the principal order shall be deleted.

9. The provisions of the principal order shall continue to

apply to those persons holding, as at 29th April 2025, a valid and

effective licence issued under the Agents (Licences) Regulations,

which licence shall remain valid only for the purpose of the

implementation of such provisions of the said regulations, as well as

the Granting of Citizenship by Naturalisation on the basis of Merit

Regulations, the Individual Investor Programme of the Republic of

Malta Regulations and the provisions of the principal order, as were in

force on the 29th April 2025, whether by virtue of a transitory

provision or otherwise, including any provisions enacted after the 29th

April 2025, insofar as such provisions remain applicable to them as

agents, until they cease to apply

Provided that the provisions of the principal order shall

continue to apply in relation to applications that have been approved

for naturalisation.

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