ACT No. XXXVI of 2025 AN ACT to further amend the Employment and Industrial Relations Act, Cap. 452.

I assent.

(L.S.)

MYRIAM SPITERI DEBONO

President

18th November, 2025

ACT No. XXXVI of 2025

AN ACT to further amend the Employment and Industrial Relations

Act, Cap. 452.

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:-

(1) The short title of this Act is the Employment and Short title and

Industrial Relations (Amendment No. 3) Act, 2025 and this Act shall commence-

ment.

be read and construed as one with the Employment and Industrial

Relations Act, hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act".

(2) The provisions of this Act shall come into force on 1st

January 2026.

Sub-article (1) article 2 of the principal Act shall be amended Amendment of

article 2 of the

as follows

principal Act.

(a)

the definition "confinement" shall be deleted;

(b) immediately after the definition "court of inquiry"

there shall be added the following new definition

" "delivery" means the birth of a child, whether alive

or stillborn, occurring from the twenty second (22nd) week

of pregnancy onwards;".

In sub-article (17) of article 36 of the principal Act the word

"confinement" shall be substituted by the word "delivery".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 404 of the

12th November, 2025.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

ELEANOR SCERRI

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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