ISSUE AND VALIDITY OF IDENTITY CARDS REGULATIONS

ISSUE AND VALIDITY OF IDENTITY CARDS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 258.01

ISSUE AND VALIDITY OF IDENTITY CARDS

REGULATIONS

15th March, 1996

LEGAL NOTICE 47 of 1996, as amended by Legal Notices 67 of 2000, 9

of 2006, 1 of 2007, 1 of 2008, 10 of 2009, 28 of 2010, and 1 and 497 of

2011, 216 and 464 of 2012, and 147 and 340 of 2013 and 143 of 2020.

The title of these regulations is Issue and Validity of

Identity Cards Regulations.

(Regulation 2)

Locality A

Locality B

Locality C

Valletta

Mdina

Birgu

Isla

Bormla

Qormi

|ebbu[ (Malta)

|abbar

Si[[iewi

|ejtun

Rabat (Gozo)

Attard

Balzan

Birkirkara

Bir\ebbu[a

Dingli

Fgura

Floriana

Fontana

Gudja

G\ira

G]ajnsielem

G]arb

G]arg]ur

G]asri

G]axaq

}amrun

Iklin

Kalkara

Ker`em

Kirkop

Lija

Luqa

Marsa

Marsaskala

Marsaxlokk

Mellie]a

M[arr

Mosta

Mqabba

Msida

Munxar

Nadur

Naxxar

Paola

Pembroke

Pietà

Qala

Qrendi

Rabat (Malta)

Safi

San {iljan

San {wann

San Lawrenz

San Pawl il-Ba]ar

Sannat

Santa Lu`ija

Santa Venera

Sliema

Swieqi

Ta’ Xbiex

Tarxien

Xag]ra

Xewkija

Xg]ajra

Zebbu[ (Gozo)

|urrieq

For the purposes of these regulations, the term "listed

locality" means a locality listed in Locality A, Locality B or

Locality C as appearing in the Schedule, and the area of such

locality shall be such area as is defined for each particular locality

in the Local Government Act.

Notwithstanding the specific dates shown on each identity

card issued during the years 1995 and 1996 indicating that the

validity thereof expires on a particular date during the years 2000,

2001 and 2002, all such identity cards shall expire as shown

hereunder according to the listed locality where the holder resides

as appearing in the Schedule

(a) Locality A, on the day and month indicated on the card

but in the year 2000; and

(b) Locality B, on the day and month indicated on the card

but in the year 2001; and

(c) Locality C, on the day and month indicated on the card

but in the year 2002,

and after the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, as the case may be, every

six years thereafter in such manner that all the identity cards of

residents in any particular locality shall always expire during the

same year

Provided that, with effect from the 13th April 2020, identity

cards issued after the 12th of February 2014, whose identifying

number contains any of the letters ‘B’, ‘G’, ‘H’, ‘L’, ‘M’, ‘P’ and ‘Z’,

which expire before the 30 th June, 2020 shall, notwithstanding the

expiry date appearing on such identity card, remain valid until the 30 th

June, 2020 or until such other date as the Prime Minister may by

regulations establish, whichever is the earlier, and such identity cards

shall not be deemed to have expired before the 30 th June, 2020 or

before such date as the Prime Minister may by regulations establish as

aforesaid.

ISSUE AND VALIDITY OF IDENTITY CARDS