FEES LEVIED FOR BUILDING PERMITS REGULATIONS

FEES LEVIED FOR BUILDING PERMITS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 35.11

FEES LEVIED FOR BUILDING PERMITS

REGULATIONS

1st January, 1988

LEGAL NOTICE 78 of 1987, as amended by Legal Notices 25 of 1988,

148 of 1990 and 407 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Fees levied for Building

Permits Regulations.

(Regulation 2)

Fees payable in respect of Permits issued by

the Planning Authority

€

1. On filing an application for the issue of a

building permit there shall be paid a fee of .....

Saving the provisions of regulation 3, the fees specified in

the Schedule hereto shall be payable to the Planning Authority in

respect of the services therein mentioned.

No additional fees indicated in item 3 of the Schedule shall

be charged in respect of

(a) buildings for religious, cultural or philanthropic

purposes such as churches, convents, political, social

and sports clubs, and schools, and Government other

than parastatal buildings;

(b) areas roofed with temporary structures and balconies;

(c) rooms on roofs, provided these are not intended for

habitation;

(d) staircases and lift spaces above the top floor;

(e) home ownership scheme plots and building

development areas allocated before the 31st December,

1987;

(f)

basements which are not used for habitation under

houses or villas;

(g) buildings intended for agricultural purposes such as

tool sheds and farm houses which are the property of

registered full-time farmers; and

(h) buildings belonging to the Malta Development

Corporation and to the Malta Freeport Corporation

Limited.

In the assessment of the amount due, the following general

considerations shall be taken

(a) The measurement of roofed buildings shall be based

on the occupied area including the thicknesses of

dividing walls and external walls, and half the

thickness of party walls. The area occupied by

courtyards shall be deducted from the measurement.

(b) Verandahs shall be considered as built areas.

(c) Staircases, lifts and other common spaces shall be

considered as roofed buildings in respect of each floor.

(d) For each building which is variably used for different

purposes there shall be paid a fee in respect of each

FEES LEVIED FOR BUILDING PERMITS

part of such building as indicated in the Schedule.

An application for the renewal of a permit, filed after the

expiration of the permit and in respect of which the fees specified

in these regulations were not paid, shall be considered as a new

application unless the work had already been commenced.

(1) The payment of additional fees indicated in item 3 of

the Schedule shall apply to all applications which were filed after

the 25th November, 1987, but the fee due on the filing of an

application indicated in items 1 and 2 of the Schedule shall not be

paid for those applications filed before the 31st December, 1987.

(2) Payment of the fee on filing of an application shall be

denoted by the fixing of a postage stamp of the relative amount on

the application. The stamp shall be effectively cancelled by the

applicant and rendered incapable of being used for any other

application or purpose. All other payments are to be made at the

cash office of the Department of Works, Block A, Floriana, or at

the Department’s office in Victoria, Gozo, on workdays between 8

a.m. and 12 noon. A receipt will be issued for each payment.

The fees specified in these regulations shall not be

reimbursable except for the additional fees indicated in item 3 of

the Schedule in the case of the withdrawal of a permit.

An application for the transfer of a permit shall be

considered as a new application, but no additional fees shall be paid

again.

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2. For an application for the renewal of a permit or

the submission of new plans, on the issue of the

new permit there shall be paid a fee of ......

11.65

3. On the issue of a permit, an additional fee

assessed according to the work involved shall

be paid as follows

Alteration Works

A. (i) For alteration works where no new areas

are being roofed there shall be paid a fee

of ........................................

11.65

(ii) For alteration works comprising new

areas which are being roofed there shall

be paid a fee of ............................

11.65

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together with the fee for new works under

B, C, D and E of this Schedule.

New Works

B. Houses

Adjacent houses

Such houses include houses which have

direct access from the road such as terraced

houses and maisonettes.

(i) For not more than 200 square metres of

roofed building ....................................

58.23

For every square metre in excess of 200

square metres of roofed building on each

floor .......................................

1.16

(ii) In the case of an extension roofed over

in addition to an existing building, up to

a total area of 200 square metres of the

building as extended including the area

of the existing building. For every

square metre of the roofed extension ...

0.29

For every square metre in excess of 200

square metres additional to an existing

building .................................

1.16

C. Villas

These include any construction of detached

or semi-detached villas even if built in areas

intended for other buildings.

For every square metre of roofed building on

each floor ...............................................

4.66

D. Flats

For every square metre of roofed building on

each floor ...............................................

1.16

E. Commercial Buildings

These include hotels, shops, offices,

showrooms, factories, workshops, garages for

private cars or for commercial use,

entertainment localities and other commercial

buildings.

For every square metre of roofed building on

each floor ...............................................

1.75

Change of Use

F. Change of Use of Existing Building

FEES LEVIED FOR BUILDING PERMITS

For every square metre of roofed building on

each floor there shall be paid a fee equal to

the difference between the fee due for a

permit for the erection of a building for the

use to which the building is to be changed and

the fee which would have been payable had

the building on the date of the application

been constructed for the use being made

thereof before the change.