PROCEEDINGS OF THE RENT REGULATION BOARD REGULATIONS

PROCEEDINGS OF THE RENT REGULATION BOARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 69.01

PROCEEDINGS OF THE RENT REGULATION

BOARD REGULATIONS

29th July, 1957

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 467 of 1957, as amended by Legal Notice 247

of 2019.

The title of these Regulations is Proceedings of the Rent

Regulation Board Regulations.

In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires -

"Board" means the Rent Regulation Board constituted under the

Ordinance, for the Island of Malta or, as the case may be, for the

Islands of Gozo and Comino;

"by electronic means" means online;

"Ordinance" means the Reletting of Urban Property (Regulation)

Ordinance;

"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board.

The Registrar of Courts, of the Court of Magistrates

(Malta) and of the Court of Magistrates (Gozo) or any person

acting in h is stead o r on h is b eha lf in a ccordance with the

provisions of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure,

hereinafter referred to as "the Registrar" shall be the Registrar of

the Board.

(1) There shall be an electronic mechanism by means of

which applications that initiate a procedure or a reply thereto, may

be filed by electronic means in the Board.

(2)

These regulations shall apply only to those acts indicated

in the electronic mechanism mentioned in regulation 3A(1).

(3)

Any advocate or legal procurator who wants to file these

acts, as indicated in these regulations, by electronic means, may do so

by filing such acts online through the appropriate site and paying the

prescribed fee.

(1) The Registrar or persons delegated by him may receive

acts filed by electronic means.

(2)

The Registrar shall issue a copy of the acts filed by

electronic means and the said copies issued by the Registrar shall for

all intents and purposes of law be considered as the original.

(3)

Acts filed by electronic means shall, for all intents and

purposes of law, be deemed filed as if they have been filed directly in

the Registry of the Board

RENT REGULATION BOARD (PROCEEDINGS)

Provided that when an act is filed by electronic means outside

registry opening hours as established by the Code of Organization and

Civil Procedure, such act shall be deemed to have been filed on the

first following day of the opening of the said Registry.

The service of all warrants, orders or other acts of the

Board shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the

Code of Organization and Civil Procedure and those provisions

shall, as far as possible, apply to proceedings before the Board.

Except where otherwise provided, the cost of the

proceedings before the Board and the registry fees chargeable for

acts filed in connection with such proceedings shall be assessed in

accordance with the tariffs annexed to that Code.

The Registrar shall provide the necessary personnel for the

holding of sittings of the Board; the officials so designated shall, in

execution of their duties, enjoy and exercise all such powers as are

vested by the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure in officials

performing similar duties.

The sittings of the Board shall be held on such days and at

such times as shall be fixed by the Chairman in the building of the

Superior Courts or, as the case may be in the building of the Court

of Magistrates (Gozo).

It shall be lawful for the Board to order inspections to be

held in faciem loci by the whole Board or by one or more of its

members.

Any decision of the Board shall be signed by the Chairman

and countersigned by the Registrar or by the clerk of the Board.

The Registrar shall have power to give certified copies of decisions

or orders of the Board on payment of the fees prescribed in respect

of copies issued by the Registry of the Court.