DIRECTIVE BY THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE FOR THE ISSUE OF LM5,000,000 6.9% MALTA GOVERNMENT STOCK 2002
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Statutory Text (9 Articles)
ISSUE OF LM5,000,000 6.9% MALTA GOVERNMENT
STOCK 2002 (FOURTH ISSUE)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 393.02
DIRECTIVE BY THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND
COMMERCE FOR THE ISSUE OF LM5,000,000
6.9% MALTA GOVERNMENT STOCK 2002
(FOURTH ISSUE)
26th September, 1997
LEGAL NOTICE 145 of 1997.
The title of this Directive is Directive by the Minister of
Finance and Commerce for the Issue of Lm5,000,000 6.9% Malta
Government Stock 2002 (Fourth Issue).
The stock shall be issued at the price of Lm100 per cent
and shall be allotted by application in multiples of Lm100.
Applications for the allotment of stock shall open on Monday, 6th
October, 1997 at 8.30a.m. and shall close at 12.00 noon on
Saturday, 18th October, 1997 or earlier at the discretion of the
Accountant General.
All persons and/or entities are eligible to apply. Allotment
will be on a first-applied first-accepted basis with preference being
given to non-banking applicants.
An application for the stock to be put on the official list
and trading on the Malta Stock Exchange will be made in terms of
the Malta Stock Exchange Act, when the stock has been allotted.
The sum of money to be raised by the stock shall be
Lm5,000,000. raised.
On closing date, one part out of every five of the total
balance standing to the credit of the sinking funds of the stocks
declared as being redeemed in the six treasury notices published in
t h e G o v e r n m e n t G a z e t t e o f 2 6 t h S e p t e m b e r, 1 9 9 7 w i l l b e
transferred to the Sinking Fund 6.9% Malta Government Stock
2002 (IV) established for the purpose of redeeming the stock. A
further half-yearly appropriation of not less than Lm50,000 out of
the general revenue and assets of the Government of Malta shall be
made as a contribution to this same sinking fund. The first
contribution shall be made during the latter six months of the year
1998.
Interest at the rate of Lm3.45 for every Lm 100 stock shall
be payable in arrear half-yearly on the 30th March and the 30th of
September of every year during the currency of the stock. The first
pro rata payment covering the period from the 19th October, 1997
to the 30th March, 1998 shall be made on the 30th day of March,
1998.
The stock shall be redeemed at par on the 30th September,
2002.