ACT No. X of 2019 AN ACT to further amend the Code of Police Laws, Cap. 10.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MARIE-LOUISE

COLEIRO PRECA

President

29th March, 2019

ACT No. X of 2019

AN ACT to further amend the Code of Police Laws, Cap. 10.

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 Code of Police Laws Short title.

(Amendment No. 2) Act, 2019 and this Act shall be read and

construed as one with the Code of Police Laws, hereinafter referred to Cap. 10.

as "the Code".

Article 114 of the Code shall be substituted by the

114. (1)

The owner or the tenant of a house and,

or the Administrator of a Condominium shall, within

thirty calendar days of a notice issued by the Electoral

Office, mark in a visible place each external door, either

with the number provided to them or in any other form of

their own choice, the next consecutive number to such

door, and in the case where doors are added between

doors which have already been given a number, there shall

be added to every repeated number, a letter of the

alphabet, in alphabetical order, starting from the first

letter. The numbers previously assigned shall be removed

under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by

the Electoral Office in such notice.

(2) It shall be unlawful to deface or destroy the

number or letter of any door.

(3) In the case where the owner or the tenant of a

house and, or the Administrator of a Condominium fail to

comply with the provisions of sub-article (1), the Electoral

Office shall have the right to affix the assigned numbers in

the presence of a Police officer.

(4) Any owner or tenant of a house and, or the

Administrator of a Condominium who fails to comply

with the provisions of sub-articles (1) and (2), shall be in

breach of the law and liable, when found guilty, to a fine

of twenty-five euro (€25).

(5)

In the case it is decided that numbers are

allocated to properties on a private road, such road shall

remain a private road.".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 211 of the

26th March, 2019.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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