DESIGNATION OF COURTS REGULATIONS

DESIGNATION OF COURTS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 12.23

DESIGNATION OF COURTS REGULATIONS

1st May, 2004

LEGAL NOTICE 281 of 2008, as amended by Legal Notice 334 of 2008.

The title of these regulations is the Designation of Courts

Regulations.

(1) For the purpose of any rules of court made in terms of

article 29 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure

regarding the implementation of the Council Regulations referred

to in sub-regulation (2), the courts mentioned in that sub-regulation

are hereby being designated as the competent courts.

(2) The courts mentioned in sub-regulation (1) designated as

the competent courts for the purpose of implementing the following

Council Regulations are as follows

(a) the Civil Court, First Hall and the Court of Magistrates

(Gozo) (General Jurisdiction Section) in its superior

jurisdiction for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 1393/

2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13

November 2007 on the service in the Member States of

judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial

matters (service of documents);

(b) the Civil Court, First Hall, the Civil Court (Family

Section), the Court of Magistrates (Malta) and the

Court of Magistrates (Gozo) sitting in its inferior

jurisdiction and the Court of Magistrates (Gozo)

(General Jurisdiction Section) sitting in its superior

jurisdiction for the purposes of Council Regulation

(EC) No 1206/2001 of the 28 May 2001 on

cooperation between the courts of the Member States

in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial

matters published in the Official Journal of the

European Communities on 27 June 2001; and

(c) the Civil Court, First Hall, the Court of Magistrates

(Gozo) (General Jurisdiction Section) in its superior

jurisdiction, the Court of Appeal, the Registrar, Civil

Courts and Tribunals and the Registrar Gozo Courts

and Tribunals for the purposes of Council Regulation

(EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction

and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in

civil and commercial matters published in the Official

Journal of the European Communities on 16 January

2001.

For the purpose of any rules of court made in terms of

article 29 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure

regarding the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/

2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the

recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters

DESIGNATION OF COURTS

and the matters of parental responsibility published in the Official

Journal of the European Communities on 14 December 2004, the

Civil Court (Family Section) and the Court of Magistrates (Gozo)

(Family Section) (Superior Jurisdiction) are hereby being

designated as the competent courts.