DISPOSAL OF MOVABLES OF REQUISITIONED BUILDINGS  ġ S.L.125.01 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 125.01
DISPOSAL OF MOVABLES OF REQUISITIONED 
BUILDINGS REGULATIONS
20th March, 1990
 LEGAL NOTICE 40 of 1990.
Title.
Requisitioned Buildings Regulations.
Interpretation.
Cap. 125.
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires-
"Act" means the Housing Act;
"Director" means the Director of Social Housing; and
"movables" means furniture or articles, in whole or in part,
existing in, or removed from, a building requisitioned under the
Act.
Disposal of 
movables.
3. ( a ) The Director may order the sale of movables in the
case -
(i) where three or more months have elapsed from
the date of the removal of, or alternative storage
of, the movables in terms of article 3(7) of the
Act, and the requisitionee has failed to comply
with a request lodged by the Director by means
of a judicial letter to retrieve such movables
within fifteen days from the service of the
judicial letter; or
(ii) where six or more months have elapsed from the
date of the removal and storage of movables in
terms of article 3(8) of the Act, and no person
having the right of immediate occupation of the
building requisitioned, or his agent or
representative, can be found within one month of
the date of publication by the Director in the
Gazette and any three local newspapers of a
notice calling on any of the aforementioned
interested persons to retrieve such movables; or
(iii) of such movables as may have been removed and
stored in terms of article 3(7) and (8) of the Act,
and have on the date of the coming into force of
these regulations still not been retrieved by the
persons concerned, within one month from the
publication of a notice by the Director in the
Gazette and three other local newspapers,
calling on such persons to retrieve such
movables after producing sufficient proof of
their entitlement thereto or such guarantee which
the Director may deem sufficient, indemnifying
him against any claim in connection with the
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retrieval of such movables by such persons, 
and the Director may utilize the proceeds therefrom
first to compensate any outstanding removal or storage
fees due to the Department, and subsequently to refund
any remaining balance in favour of the persons who
would have been entitled to retrieve the movables.
( b ) Any sale made in terms of the preceding paragraph
shall be made either by public auction or after a call
for tenders.
( c ) Such movables as remain unsold after being offered
for sale either by public auction or after a call for
tenders, shall be disposed of at the discretion of the
Director after having, together with a representative of
the Accountant General, sought to obtain the best cash
value, if any, in the circumstances, for those movables,
and subject to an annotation being kept of all
proceedings undertaken with regard to each particular
lot of movables disposed of.
Storage fees. 4.  Where a requisition order has been made involving the
removal and storage of any movables in terms of article 3(7), (8)
and (9) of the Act, such removal and storage will be at the
exclusive charge of the requisitionee, or his agent or representative,
at the yearly rate of one lira fifty cents per square metre of space, or
part thereof, occupied by the movables stored and subject to a
minimum fee of five liri.
