ACT No. VI of 2023 AN ACT to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

14th March, 2023

ACT No. VI of 2023

AN ACT to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Civil Code (Amendment) Act, Short title.

2023 and this Act shall be read and construed as one with the Civil Cap. 16.

Code, hereinafter referred to as "the Code".

In sub-article (5) of article 54 of the Code, the words "as the Amendment of

case may be." shall be substituted by the words "as the case may be:" article

Code.

and immediately after there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that for the purposes of this sub-article, the

court may also order the Director General of Social Security to

transfer a portion of social security contributions of the spouse

liable to supply maintenance to the spouse to whom maintenance

is due, which portion of contributions so being transferred, when

adding also the contributions which the party who is receiving said

transfer had paid in the said party’s own name during marriage,

shall not exceed in total thereof one-half of the total contributions

paid by the two (2) parties together during their marriage.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 96 of the 7th

March, 2023.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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