DUPLICATE NOTES AT THE PUBLIC REGISTRY REGULATIONS

DUPLICATE NOTES AT THE PUBLIC REGISTRY

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 56.02

DUPLICATE NOTES AT THE PUBLIC REGISTRY

REGULATIONS

2nd November, 1984

LEGAL NOTICE 50 of 1984, as amended by Legal Notice 58 of 1986.

The title of these Regulations is Duplicate Notes at the

Public Registry Regulations.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Director of the Public

Registry to make duplicate notes of any original notes for the

registration of any cause of preference among creditors, notes of

reference or notes of enrolment deposited in the Public Registry in

Malta or in the Public Registry in Gozo, where the original note has

been lost, destroyed or damaged and to make a new register in

substitution of any register lost, destroyed or damaged.

(2) The making of the duplicate notes and new registers shall

be compiled by making reference to the respective register and

original note, as the case may be, kept in the Public Registry or by

reference to the relative deed, and reproducing the relevant

information therein contained on the duplicate note or new register,

as the case may be.

(3) The duplicate notes or new registers may be made by the

process of microfilming, which shall be carried out on the premises

of the Public Registry in Malta and in Gozo and under the

supervision of the pertinent director of that registry.

The provisions of the Public Registry Act and of the Civil

Code relating to the formulation of the notes mentioned in these

Regulations shall apply to duplicate notes and new registers made

under these Regulations.

(1) The duplicate notes or new registers prepared in

accordance with these Regulations shall be authenticated by the

Director of the Public Registry or by an assistant director or an

officer mentioned in article 3(2) of the Public Registry Act, and the

director or such assistant director or officer abovementioned shall

ensure that the information contained in the duplicate note or new

register conforms to the information contained or which ought to

have been contained in the original note or register.

(2) The Director of the Public Registry shall indicate the

duplicate notes or new registers which have been made in

accordance with these Regulations and the date and the source

thereof.

The provisions of these Regulations shall also apply to the

making of duplicate notes and new registers of notes of renewals of

registrations and of legal hypothecs.