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CHAPTER 56
PUBLIC REGISTRY ACT
To repeal and to re-enact with amendments the law relating to the Public
Registry.
12th May, 1927
ACT XII of 1927, as amended by Act IV of 1928; Ordinances: XXV of
1938, XL of 1939 and XXIV of 1940; Acts: XXIX of 1948 and VI of 1951;
Legal Notice 4 of 1963; and Acts: XXV of 1963, III and XXIII of 1967, III
of 1969, V of 1912, XI of 1973, VI of 1974, XXXV of 1979, XIII of 1983,
XVII of 1984, XII and XXXI of 1986; Legal Notice 71 of 1987; Act XXXVII
of 1988; Legal Notice 121 of 1993; Act III of 1994; Legal Notice 211 of
1997; Act IX of 2000; and Legal Notices 262 of 2000, 290 of 2001, and 7
and 390 of 2002. Incorporating also Articles 7(2), 8, 11 and 12 of, and
Form annexed to Ordinance XIII of 1895.
Title.
A Public Registry 
Office in Valletta 
(Malta) and 
another in Victoria 
(Gozo).
2. There shall be a Public Registry Office in the city of
Valletta (Malta) and another in the city of Victoria (Gozo) for the
registration of causes of preference among creditors for the
enrolment of acts requiring registration in order to have effect in
regard to third parties, and for all other registrations required by
law.
Director of Public 
Registry. 
Amended by: 
III. 1967.2; 
XXIII.1967.2; 
XXXV.1979.2; 
XXXI. 1986.2.
Substituted by: 
III.1994.12. 
3. (1) Each of the said offices shall be under the management
of an officer called Director of the Public Registry, hereinafter
referred to as the Director who shall also be the treasurer of the
Public Registry and shall receive on account of the Government the
fees leviable in accordance with the Tariff in the First Schedule
hereto.
Officer in, and 
Assistant Directors 
of, the Public 
Registry.
(2) In the Public Registry Office of Valletta (Malta) there shall
also be Assistant Directors who shall be so designated by the
Director from among the officers referred to in sub-article (1) of
article 306 of the Civil Code.
Cap.16.
Code, any reference made to the Director in articles 35 and 37 shall
not be construed as including a reference to any other officer
referred to in this article.
Oaths.
referred to in this article shall take before the Court of Appeal the
oath of allegiance set out in the Constitution of Malta, and the oath
of office as follows:
‘ I..........................................   promise and swear to observe
faithfully all the laws of Malta relating to my office and to perform
faithfully and with all honesty and exactness the duties of Director/
Assistant Director/Officer of /in the Public Registry to the best of
my knowledge and ability. So help me God. ’
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Registrations and 
enrolments to be 
made in the Malta 
and in the Gozo 
office. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1938.2.
4. (1) In the office of Valletta (Malta) there shall be made all
registrations of causes of preference respecting debtors who, in the
respective notes, are described as ordinarily residing in the Island
of Malta, or as residing in any other country outside Malta, as well
as all registrations indiscriminately, relating to bottomry contracts,
and all enrolments relating to acts received by notaries residing in
the Island of Malta or relating to judgments or decrees delivered or
given by the courts of justice in the said Island of Malta.
(2) There shall also be made in the said office of Valletta
(Malta) all enrolments relating to acts received by notaries residing
in the Island of Gozo or Comino or relating to judgments or decrees
delivered or given by the courts of justice in the said Island of
Gozo, when such acts, judgments or decrees relate to immovables
situate in the Island of Malta.
(3) In the office of Victoria (Gozo) there shall only be made
such registrations of causes of preference respecting debtors, who,
in the respective notes, are described as ordinarily residing in the
Island of Gozo or Comino, and all enrolments relating to acts
received by notaries residing in the Island of Gozo or Comino, or
relating to judgments or decrees delivered or given by the courts of
justice in the Island of Gozo.
(4) There shall also be made in the said office of Victoria
(Gozo) all enrolments relating to acts received by notaries residing
in the Island of Malta or relating to judgments or decrees delivered
or given by the courts of justice in the said Island of Malta when
such acts, judgments or decrees relate to immovables situate in the
Island of Gozo or Comino.
The Director shall 
not receive notes 
not drawn up 
according to law. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1979.3;
XVII. 1984.2.
5. (1) The Director shall not receive any note for the
registration of any cause of preference among creditors, or any note
of reference or any note for the enrolment of an act unless such
note is drawn up according to law.
(2) Every note for the registration of any cause of preference
among creditors shall be drawn up according to Form A in the
Second Schedule hereto and any note of reference to the same shall
be drawn up according to Form B in the said Schedule.
(3) A note for the enrolment of an Act or for the registration of
a cause of preference and any note of reference to the same shall be
typewritten or printed in dark, clear, easily legible and indelible
characters, on paper authorized by the Director; and there shall be
deposited at the Public Registry, together with the note, a clear
copy thereof.
(4) No note, whether for registration or enrolment, shall
contain any figures or numbers which have not at least in the first
instance, been written out in words, and no correction shall be
made in any such note.
(5) The person who signs any note or copy referred to in this
article shall, next to his signature, print, stamp or write in clearly
legible letters, and in case of handwriting in block letters, his name
and surname, and his professional capacity or, in the appropriate
case, his capacity of creditor or debtor.
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Where particulars 
are unknown. 
Amended by: 
XXIV. 1940.2.
Cap. 16.
6. When the particulars which, according to article 2042 of
the Civil Code must be stated in the note in regard to the name of
the father, the name of the mother, the place of birth or residence of
the creditor or the debtor are unknown to the person applying for
the registration, there shall be stated in the note that such
particulars are unknown to such person: saving, in regard to the
debtor, the provision of the said article as to the insertion in the
note of other individual particulars capable of establishing his
identity.
Rules for the 
designation of an 
immovable. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1938.2.
7. In the designation of an immovable, the following rules
shall be observed:
( a ) in the case of an urban tenement, it shall be sufficient
to mention the town, suburb or village, and the street
in which it is situate, and the number with which it is
marked: if the tenement bears no number or is situate
in a street which has no name, the note must contain a
mention of such circumstance and an indication of the
boundaries on at least three sides;
( b ) in the case of a rural tenement, it shall be sufficient to
mention the suburb, or village within the limits of
which it is situate, its denomination, if any, its
boundaries on at least three sides, and its approximate
area.
Contents of note 
for enrolment. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1938.4.
8. (1) The note for enrolment shall contain the designation of
the parties in the manner prescribed for the designation of the
debtor in the registration of a hypothec, the date and nature of the
act, an indication of the thing to which the act refers as provided in
the last preceding article, together with an indication of the value in
the case of acts in which such value can be determined.
(2) In the case of a will, the note shall only contain the date and
nature of the act and the designation of the testator.
Cap. 88.
Acquisition (Public Purposes) Ordinance the note for enrolment
shall be deemed to comply with the provisions of this article,
notwithstanding that the owner or any of the owners of the
immovables so transferred is designated as unknown or uncertain.
Contents of note 
for registration of 
bottomry contract. 
Amended by: 
XI. 1973.377.
9. Repealed by article 46 of Act XXXVII of 1988 .
When attestation of 
notes is required. 
Substituted by: 
XXXV. 1979.4.  
10. The Director shall not receive any note which is signed
only by the person applying for registration or enrolment unless
such person and his signature are well known to him or unless he
has ascertained the identity of such person by means of the official
identity card, or of a passport or of some other official document
and the signature of such person is made in the presence of the
Director.
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Court of Revision 
of Notarial Acts to 
decide any 
question as to the 
regularity of a 
note.
11. (1) Any question as to the regularity of a note shall, on the
demand of the person applying for the registration or enrolment, be
determined by the Court of Revision of Notarial Acts, which shall
decide whether such note is drawn up according to law, or,
otherwise direct the manner in which it shall be drawn up.
(2) The Director shall receive and register any note which the
said court, having regard to the nature of the case and the
provisions of law, shall have declared to contain the prescribed
particulars notwithstanding that he had previously refused to
receive it on the ground of irregularity.
(3) Where the note is countersigned by one of the Visitors of
Notarial Acts his signature shall be equivalent to such declaration.
Office hours for 
presentation of 
notes. 
Amended by: 
VI. 1951.2. 
Substituted by: 
VI. 1974.2.
Amended by:
IX.2000.4.
 12. The Office of the Public Registry in Malta and that in Gozo
shall be open for the presentation of notes of registration and
enrolment from Monday to Friday of every week during such hours
as the Minister responsible for the Public Registry may fix by
notice published in the Government Gazette:
Provided that, when any such day happens to be a public
holiday as well as on Wednesday and Thursday in Holy Week, the
said Offices shall be kept closed.
Director to write 
on note date of 
receipt and 
progressive 
number. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1963.2.
13. (1) On every note received for registration or enrolment
the Director if satisfied of its regularity shall write a progressive
number and the date of its receipt, and shall sign his name thereto.
(2) The numbering of notes shall commence with the first and
end with the last note filed in each year.
Order of 
registration. 
Amended by: 
III. 1967.3.
14. (1) Notes properly drawn up shall be registered in the
order in which they are presented.
(2) Nevertheless where any note is rejected by the Director as
irregular and such note is again presented to him in the form
prescribed by the decree directing its acceptance, it shall be
registered in the order of its fresh presentation without suspending
the registration of other notes received in the interval between the
rejection and the fresh presentation of the said note.
Time within which 
notes are to be 
registered. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1963.3; 
III. 1969.2.
15. Every note regularly drawn up must be registered within
eight months from the day of its receipt: but for all legal purposes,
it shall be deemed to have been registered on the day on which it
was received.
How registration or 
enrolment is made. 
Substituted by: 
XXV. 1963.4. 
Amended by: 
III. 1969.2,3; 
XXXV. 1979.5,6.
16. (1) Registration or enrolment is effected by entering a
clear copy thereof in the register. The copy shall contain the
progressive number of the note and the date of receipt and shall be
signed by the Director.
(2) The register may be kept in several volumes, each of which
may be reserved for one or more kinds of entries.
(3) The Director shall, on the last page of each volume of the
register, make a declaration to the effect that the registrations
therein contained are true copies of the original notes.
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(4) Such declaration shall be made, dated and signed by the
Director within eight months from the receipt of the last note
entered in the volume.
Registers to be 
numbered and 
countersigned. 
Amended by. 
XXV.1938.5; 
XXXV.1979.5,6; 
XVII. 1984.3.
17. (1) The pages of every register kept under the provisions
of this Act shall be numbered consecutively.
(2) The last page of each volume shall contain a statement as to
the total number of its pages; such statement shall be signed by the
Director.
Pages of registers 
to be divided into 
columns.
18. (1) Every page of the registers kept under the provisions
of this Act shall be divided into columns.
(2) There shall be at least as many columns as are prescribed in
respect of the form of the notes for registration, and one or more
other columns for the entry therein of any assignment, reduction, or
cancellation, or of any reference to other entries, or of such other
annotations as may be necessary.
No corrections to 
be made without 
authority of court. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1963.6.
19. Repealed by article 4 of Act XVII of 1984.
Correction may be 
made by 
transcription of 
entry. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1963.7; 
XVII. 1984.5.
20. (1) The correction of any entry may be made by
transcribing the entry with the same number and date in another
part of the register; in which case a reference to the second entry
shall be made in the first entry, and in the second entry an
annotation shall be made to the effect that such entry is merely a
correction of the first entry.
(2) The annotation shall be dated and signed by the Director.
Correction of 
errors in 
transcription. 
Added by: 
XXV. 1938.6. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1963.8; 
XVII. 1984.6.
21. (1) Where it is found necessary to correct an error in the
transcription of any entry, the Director shall make the correction by
means of a note in the margin of such entry and any cancellation
shall be so made as to leave the words cancelled clearly legible.
(2) Such correction shall be dated and signed by the Director. 
(3) It shall not be lawful to make any erasure.
Applicability of 
articles 20 and 21. 
Added by: 
XXXV. 1979.7. 
Substituted by: 
XVII. 1984.7.
22. The provisions of articles 20 and 21 shall not apply to
notes presented after the 1st January, 1980.
Registers and notes 
open to inspection.
23. The registers and the notes received but not yet registered
shall be open to inspection by any person.
Indexes. 
Amended by: 
XXV.1938.7; 
XVII. 1984.8; 
XII. 1986.8.
24. (1) A general index of all registrations of causes of
preference among creditors entered between the 1st January and the
3lst December both inclusive, of every year, shall be made
annually, as well as a similar general index of all enrolments, made
during the said year.
(2) The general index of enrolments shall contain a list of the
notes referred to in article 8(3); such notes shall also be entered in
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the said index under the name of the town, suburb or village within
the limits of which the immovable expropriated is situate.
Cap.16.
(3) The Director shall, in addition to the general indexes
mentioned in sub-articles (1) and (2), keep such other books,
registers and indexes and make such entries therein, as may be
necessary to record, indicate and make traceable the connection
between the previous name or surname of any person, and the new
name or surname assumed by such person in virtue of any of the
provisions of article 253(2) or of article 92(4) and (5) of the Civil
Code, or where in virtue of any other provision of the said Code,
the name or surname of a person is changed, other than by marriage
or adoption, in such a way that any cause of preference or any
enrolment relative to that person would not be immediately
traceable in the general indexes aforementioned.
Lists of 
registrations and 
enrolments to be 
transmitted from 
Gozo. 
Amended by: 
XVII. 1984.9.
25. (1) The Director of the Victoria (Gozo) Office shall
transmit to the Director of the Valletta (Malta) Office, during the
first and the third week of every month, a list containing the names
of the debtors against whom registrations shall have been entered in
the Victoria (Gozo) Office during the preceding fortnight and
another list of the enrolments made in the same office.
(2) The said lists shall be open to inspection in the same
manner as the registers.
Copy of index to 
be also transmitted.
(3) The Director of the Victoria (Gozo) Office shall also
transmit to the Director of the Valletta (Malta) Office, in the month
of January of every year, a copy of the index of registrations and
enrolments made in that office in the preceding year as provided in
article 24.
Director to give, on 
application, 
certificate of 
registrations. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1938.8.
26. (1) The Director is bound to give to any person applying
for the same, a certificate of all the registrations of causes of
preference entered in the register against any individual, or of the
enrolments of deeds to which such individual was a party.
(2) The application for such certificate must be made in writing
and must contain an indication of the name, surname, name of the
father, and place of birth of the said individual, and, in the case of a
married woman, the name and surname of her husband and the date
of her marriage.
(3) Such application must be signed by the applicant, or by an
advocate, notary or legal procurator.
(4) Where the father is unknown, such circumstance shall be
stated in the application.
Contents of 
certificate. 
Amended by: 
XXV. 1938.9.
27. (1) The certificate referred to in the last preceding article
shall contain - 
( a ) a recital of the application with the particulars of the
individual to whom such application refers;
( b ) a copy of every entry concerning any person in respect
of whom the particulars as to name, surname, name of
father, place of birth, and name of husband (if any)
correspond to those of the individual described in the
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application; and
( c ) where an express request is made in the application, a
copy of any note referred to in article 8(3) relating to
any immovables specified in the application and
therein designated by the particulars mentioned in
article 7.
(2) If no entry relating to the individual or the immovables
referred to in the application exists, the certificate shall contain a
declaration to that effect.
Where search of 
liabilities or 
transfers is 
required to be 
made in the Public 
Registry. 
Amended by: 
IV.1928.2; 
XXV. 1938.10; 
XL. 1939.2; 
XVII. 1984.10.
28. (1) Whenever a search either of the liabilities or of the
transfers of property of any person is required to be made in the
Public Registry, the officer in charge shall at the request of the
applicant deliver a list, signed by the Director of the Public
Registry or by any officer acting as such, and countersigned by the
officer who shall have compiled such list, containing the
progressive number of every entry relating to the person in respect
of whom the search is made, entered in the Public Registry during
the period for which such search is required.
(2) The said list shall also contain, if an express request to that
effect is made in the application for the search, the progressive
number of any of the notes referred to in article 8(3), relating to any
immovable specified in the application and therein designated by
the particulars mentioned in article 7.
Reference to 
registrations in 
Victoria (Gozo) 
Office.
29. (1) The Director of the Valletta (Malta) Office shall
mention, separately, in the certificates given out by him under the
provisions of the foregoing articles, the entries made in the Victoria
(Gozo) Office, in so far as they result from the index or the lists
transmitted to him as aforesaid, stating further the date of the list
last received by him.
(2) The Director of the Victoria (Gozo) Office shall in all cases
include in his certificate a statement as to the possibility of the
existence of entries in the Valletta (Malta) Office under the name of
the individual designated in the application.
Special certificate.  
Amended by: 
XVII. 1984.11.
30. The Director is also bound to give to any person applying
therefor a special certificate of any entry, containing a copy of the
entry itself. Any such certificate shall not contain more than one
entry.
Certificate not to 
include lapsed 
registrations. 
S. 12 of Ord. XIII 
of 1895, 
incorporated.
31. The Director of the Public Registry, when required to give
any general or special certificate of registrations against any
person, shall not take into consideration such registrations as, being
subject to renewal, have not been renewed and from the date of
which thirty years shall have elapsed.
Form of note for 
renewal. 
S. 7(2) of Ord. XIII 
of 1895, 
incorporated. 
Substituted by: 
XXXV. 1979.8.
32. The Director of the Public Registry shall not receive any
note of renewal unless it is made in accordance with Form A in the
Second Schedule hereto together with the following declaration at
the end of the note of renewal:
" I declare that I intend to renew note of registration
number.................... entered in the Public Registry on ................. ”.
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Register for 
renewals and legal 
hypothecs.
S.8 of Ord. XIII of 
1895, 
incorporated. 
33. The Director of the Public Registry shall keep a register for
the renewals of registrations and another register for the legal
hypothecs in favour of wives and of persons under tutorship or
curatorship.
Provisions relating 
to original 
registrations to 
apply to renewals. 
S.11 of Ord. XIII of 
1895, 
incorporated. 
34. The provisions relating to original registrations and the
relative registers, shall so far as applicable apply to the renewal of
registrations and to the registers mentioned in the last preceding
article.
Responsibility of 
Director.
35. The Director shall be liable for damages and interest
arising from - 
( a ) his omission to register any note received by him or
his ante-dating or post-dating any such note;
( b ) his omission or inaccurate registration of any of the
particulars contained in the note respecting the
designation of the debtor, or assignee, or of the amount
due or assigned;
( c ) his omission in any of the certificates or lists
mentioned in articles 26 and 28, of any existing entry,
unless such omission is due to insufficient indications
for which the Director cannot be held responsible;
( d ) his omission to mention in any of the said certificates
relating to registrations of causes of preference, any
assignments duly entered in the registers.
Inspection of 
registers. 
Amended by:
XXXV. 1979.9.
36. (1) One of the Visitors shall inspect the registers twice in
each year.
(2) The first inspection shall take place within the six months
reckoned from the first day of May and the second within the six
months reckoned from the first day of November.
Duties of Court of 
Revision. 
Substituted by: 
XXIII.1967.3. 
Amended by: 
XXXV. 1979.10; 
XIII. 1983.5; 
XXXI. 1986.3. 
Substituted by: 
III.1994.12.
37. During the said inspections, the Visitor shall examine
whether the officers referred to in article 3 have complied with the
provisions of this Act and of any other law and may, for every
contravention, inflict upon the officer responsible, a fine
( ammenda)  not exceeding five liri:
    Provided that where the contravention consists in the omission
of anything which is required to be done under this Act or under
any other law and it is not possible for the court to ascertain who
was responsible for such omission, the contravention shall be
deemed to have been committed by the Director and the
punishment shall be inflicted accordingly.
Savings. 
Amended by: 
XI.1973.377. 
Cap. 234.
38. (1) This Act shall not affect the provisions of the
Merchant Shipping Act with respect to the registration of debts
affecting ships in accordance with the provisions of the said Act.
(2) Every custom contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act, is repealed.
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Power to make 
regulations. 
Added by: 
XXXV.1979.11. 
Substituted by: 
XVII. 1984.12.
Amended by:
IX.2000.4.
39. (1) The Minister responsible for the Public Registry may
make regulations generally for carrying out the provisions of this
Act and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing, may by such regulations -
( a ) provide for the making of duplicate notes of any
original notes for the registration of any cause of
preference among creditors, or of any note of reference
or of any note of enrolment where the original note has
been lost, destroyed or damaged, and for the
substitution by a new register of any register lost,
destroyed or damaged;
( b ) prescribe the mode in which such duplicate notes, and
new registers shall be prepared and authenticated;
( c ) prescribe that notes for the registration of any cause of
preference among creditors, notes of reference, and
notes of enrolment and the relative registers and
indexes be reproduced by microfilming, and the mode
in which such reproductions are to be made, stored and
made accessible to the public;
( d ) prescribe the manner in which reproductions made by
microfilming and copies thereof may be authenticated; 
( e ) provide for the computerisation, including storage, of
information taken from any records which are kept in
accordance with the provisions of this Act, and for the
production of documents containing statements of
such information and the authentication of such
documents;
( f ) prescribe the form of any certificate issued by the
Director in terms of articles 26 and 30 and the form of
the relative application for the issue of such
certificates;
( g ) prescribe the form of the application for the issuing of
lists in terms of article 28 and the form of such lists;
( h ) prescribe the fees and other charges to be levied and
paid in respect of anything done under the provisions
of this Act;
( i ) amend, make additions to or substitute the Schedules
to this Act; and
( j ) provide for any matter incidental or supplementary to
any of the foregoing provisions.
(2) The provisions of any regulations made under this article
shall, so far as applicable, apply to renewals of registrations and to
legal hypothecs.
(3) Any duplicate note or new register made in accordance with
regulations made under sub-article (1), shall for all intents and
purposes, replace the original note or register.
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FIRST SCHEDULE 
Substituted by: 
XL.1939.3. 
Amended by: 
XXIX.1948.2; 
V. 1972.3; 
XIII.1983.4. 
Substituted by: 
L.N. 71 of 1987. 
Amended by: 
L.N. 121 of 1993.
Substituted by:
L.N. 211 of 1997.
Amended by:
L.N. 262 of 2000;
L.N. 290 of 2001;
L.N. 7 of 2002;
L.N. 390 of 2002.
TARIFF
[Article 3]
A. Privileges and hypothecs
Lm c 
1. For every note for registration or of renewal of
registration where the amount of debt -
 ( a ) does not exceed Lm1,000 ................................... 1.00
 ( b ) exceeds Lm 1,000 but does not exceed Lm20,000  10.00
 ( c ) exceeds Lm 20,000 ............................................ 10.00
and in addition one lira (Lm1) in respect of each
Lm1,000, or part of Lm1,000, over and above
the initial Lm20,000.
( d ) where the amount of debt is not stated. 1.00
  For every note for registration where the debt is an
annuity or a pension, the fees laid down in the forego-
ing scale shall be levied in the following manner,
namely:
( a ) if the annuity is constituted in perpetuity or for
twenty years or more, or for an indefinite period,
the fee is to be assessed on the total amount pay-
able during the period of twenty years;
( b ) if the annuity is constituted for a definite period
under twenty years, the fee is to be assessed on
the total amount payable during such period;  
( c ) if the annuity is constituted for the life or lives of
any person or persons, the fee is to be assessed
on the total amount payable during the period of
twelve years.
 2. For every note relating to an assignment, a
reduction, or cancellation including the relative
reference to be entered in the registers .......................... 1.50
              B. Enrolments
8. For every note for the enrolment of a public will, for
every note for the enrolment of the opening of a secret
will, and for every note containing a declaration  causa
mortis  ..........................................................................  2.50
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9. For every note of renunciation made on the taking of
monastic vows, of an endowment, of a marriage
contract without the conveyance of immovables, of a
counter-declaration to a marriage contract, of personal
separation and cessation of the community of acquests,
and for any other note relating to any power of attorney,
notarial deed, judgment or decree of a court, where the
value involved is not ascertainable ............... 1.00
10. For every other note relating to any notarial deed,
judgment or decree of a court, where the value involved
is ascertainable -
 ( a ) and does not exceed Lm1,000 ............................ 1.00
 ( b ) exceeds Lm 1,000 but does not exceed Lm20,000  10.00
 ( c ) exceeds Lm 20,000 ............................................ 10.00
and in addition one lira (Lm1) in respect of each
Lm1,000, or part of Lm1,000, over and above
the initial Lm20,000.
For every note for enrolment relating to an annuity or
a pension the fees laid down in the foregoing scale shall
be levied in the following manner, namely:
 ( a ) if the annuity is constituted in perpetuity, or for
twenty years or more, or for an indefinite period,
the fee is to be assessed on the total amount pay-
able during the period of twenty years;
 ( b ) if the annuity is constituted for a definite period
under twenty years, the fee is to be assessed on
the total amount payable during such period;
 ( c ) if the annuity is constituted for life or lives of
any person or persons, the fee is to be assessed
on the total amount payable during the period of
twelve years.
11. For every reference to be entered in the registers.. 0.50
 C. Applications, Searches and Certificates
C1. For every application for a search for entries
against a particular individual or company (where the
particulars do not correspond, two or more applications
have to be submitted and shall be deemed to have
always been necessary), provided that where the
application is submitted by a government department
the application fee shall be reduced by half .................. 6.00,0
And, in addition, there shall be payable:
 ( a ) for every copy, irrespective of the number of
pages, of a note of preference, reference, enrol-
ment or other record forming part of the search .. 1.20,0
   Provided that where the applicant,
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      (i) orders such copy through a remote site,
even when such record does not form
part of the search; or
      (ii) accesses the remote site on the status of
his own applications for a search,
  no extra charge shall be levied as is due for the
copy or search as the case may be;
( b ) where as part of the search, instead of a full copy
of the note, only an indication thereof is given,
such as ''GPP'' for guarantee of peaceful
possession ''D/M'' for different maternity, or
similar note in lieu of the full copy .................... 0.36,0
C2. When the application refers to the verification
and certification of non-computerised searches, in
addition to the minimum application fee mentioned in
paragraph C1 hereof, as well as in addition to the
charge mentioned in the same paragraph whenever a
particular note is not recorded in the searches presented
for verification and certification, a copy of the missing
note is provided with the result, including the checking
of notes of reference in respect of particular notes of
preference not forming part of an official search
application, a charge, per match, of:
( a ) for the first 99 matches ...................................... 0.18,0
( b ) where the number is 100 matches but does not
exceed 200 charge per match within this band .... 0.06,0
( c ) where the number is 200 matches but does not
exceed 500 charge per match within this band .... 0.04,8
( d ) where the number is 500 matches but does not
exceed 1000 charge per match within this band .. 0.03,6
( e ) where the number is 1000 matches or over,
charge per match within this band ...................... 0.02,4
C3. Request to update an official search issued
during the ninety days prior to the request .................... 1.56,0
C4. For a special certificate (Public Registry
Certificate) of any entry issued as a true copy of any
entry following an  ad hoc  request in terms of article 30
of the Act and not forming part of an official search ..... 1.50,0
C5. For every certificate relating to the wills made
by any particular person irrespective of the number of
pages (including the fee for the search):
( a ) where an application does not require a search in
pre-1972 records ................................................ 3.50,0
( b ) in all other cases ................................................ 5.00,0
C6. Application to be registered as an agent ........... 5.00,0
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C7. When a person makes a special arrangement
with the Director whereby the latter is to provide him
with copies of all notes of preference to which such
person may be a party during the six months next
following such arrangement, for every informal copy
irrespective of the number of pages, so long as the
number of copies ordered are more than 50 .................. 0.25,0
C8. For accessing the electronic records from a
remote site, the charge per search carried out in
accordance with the parameters of Parts A or B of the
Second Schedule hereof, up to a maximum of fifty
records at any one time ................................................ 5.00,0
Provided that, irrespective of the number of
electronic records available, where the applicant
chooses to limit the access, the charge shall be, where
those records cover the latest -
( a ) 30 days as currently available ................... 1.00,0
( b ) 90 days as currently available ................... 2.00,0
( c ) 120 days as currently available ................. 3.00,0
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SECOND SCHEDULE 
FORMS
Amended by: 
XXIV. 1940.3. 
Substituted by: 
XXXV. 1979. 12.
Form annexed to 
Ordinance XIII of 
1895, 
incorporated. 
Substituted by: 
XXXV. 1979.12.
FORM A - NOTE FOR REGISTRATION 
[Articles 5, 32]
Note for Registration.
of.....................  Progressive No. .................
REMARKS (for office use only)
CREDITOR
(Particulars of Creditor) 
DEBTOR
(Particulars of Debtor) 
CREDIT
(Particulars of Credit)
CAUSE OF PREFERENCE
(Hypothec, Privilege, Legal Hypothec, etc.)
This               day   of                              19
Director Signature of person applying
for registration
FORM B - NOTE OF REFERENCE
[A R T I C L E  5(2)]
REFERENCE NO.   TITLE
(Hypothec No. is to be inserted
here)
Signature
