DEPOSITS IN COURT REGULATIONS

DEPOSITS IN COURT

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 12.06

DEPOSITS IN COURT REGULATIONS

29th January, 1973

LEGAL NOTICE 2 of 1973, as amended by: Legal Notice 148 of 1975;

Acts XXXIX of 1976 and VIII of 1990; and Legal Notice 131 of 2014.

The title of these regulations is Deposits in Court

Regulations.

(1) Where any money being legal tender in Malta, is to be

deposited pursuant to a schedule of deposit filed in the superior

courts, the money is to be presented to the cashier in the registry of

the said courts.

(2) Where any money, not being legal tender in Malta, or any

gold or silver articles or any pearls or precious stones are to be

deposited pursuant to a schedule of deposit filed in the said courts,

they shall be placed in a safe place as directed by the Registrar Civil

Courts and Tribunals or, as the case may be, at the Central Bank of

Malta

Provided that, if such a deposit is made after noon of a

Saturday or of any day during the period from the sixteenth day of

June of any year to the thirtieth day of September of the same year,

both days included, the above money or articles shall be deposited

in the registry of the said court and shall be transferred by the

registrar to the appropriate place as provided for in this regulation on

the next following working day.

Where any money, being legal tender in Malta or not, or

any other effects are to be deposited pursuant to a schedule of

deposit filed in the Court of Magistrates (Malta) or in the Court of

Magistrates (Gozo), the provisions of regulation 2 shall apply,

provided, however, that when the schedule of deposit is filed in the

Courts of Magistrates (Gozo) the reference in the said regulation to

the appropriate place as provided for in the said regulation shall be

construed as a reference to the place as directed by the Director

General Courts, Gozo, or, as the case may be, to the Central Bank of

Malta.

The Governor of the Central Bank shall be the person who

shall hold regular deposits of moneys not legally current in Malta,

gold or silver articles, pearls or precious stones.

The property referred to in regulation 4 shall be held in a

safe place and shall not be used by any person or released to any

person except as directed by the Registrar Civil Courts and

Tribunals.