IMMOVABLE PROPERTY 
(DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL AREAS) ġ S.L.246.02 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 246.02
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY (DESIGNATION OF 
SPECIAL AREAS) REGULATIONS
2nd April, 1993
LEGAL NOTICE 48 of 1993.
Title.
(Designation of Special Areas) Regulations.
Designation of 
Special Areas.
2. (1) The Minister may by Order designate any area in Malta
as a Designated Special Area for the purposes of these regulations. 
(2) A Designated Special Area shall be defined either by
reference to the boundaries set out in the Order or by reference to a
plan or map contained in or referred to in the Order.
Conditions for 
transfer of 
immovables in 
Designated Special 
Areas.
3. In any Order made in accordance with regulation 2, the
Minister shall lay down the following: 
( a ) the category of non-resident persons to whom the
Order applies;
( b ) the category of immovable property situate in the
Designated Special Area to which the Order applies;
( c ) the conditions under which immovable property in the
Designated Special Area may be transferred to, and
acquired by non-resident persons, including the uses
that may be made of such immovable property and the
conditions under which such uses may be made;
( d ) the form of the application and the documents that are
to be presented with any application by a non-resident
person to acquire immovable property in the
Designated Special Area;
( e ) the title under which such immovable property may or
may not be acquired by a non-resident person;
( f ) the use which such immovable property may be made
of by the person acquiring it; and
( g ) the fees that are to be paid for the issue of a permit by
the Minister for the acquistion of immovable peppery
by a non-resident person in the Designated Special
Area.
Minister shall not 
withhold 
permission for 
acquisition.
4. Upon the payment of the prescribed fee by the applicant,
the Minister shall not withhold his permission for the acquisition
by a non-resident person of an immovable property situate in a
Designated Special Area where the immovable property and the
non-resident persons both belong to the respective categories
indicated in the Order relative to the Designated Special Area, and
the application is accompanied by the documents and allother
information prescribed in the Order, and in any such case the
permission shall be deemed to have been granted under the
conditions (including conditions as to use) as may be stated in the
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(DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL AREAS)
Order.
Special conditions. 5. Any Order made by the Minister in virtue of these
regulations may prescribe that:
( a ) the immovables in the Designated Special Areas or the
common or public areas or utilities Designated Special
Area, shall be managed by such management company
complying with such conditions as may be set out in
the Order and recognised by the Minister for the
purpose; and, or
( b ) that the property may only be let to third parties
through such letting or management company
complying with such conditions as may be set out in
the Order and recognised by the Minister for the
purpose.
Restrictions. 6. The Minister may only designate an area as a Designated
Special Area where he is satisfied that it is in the public interest so
to do because the immovable property situate in the area forms part
of a project or projects aimed at enhancing the tourist industry or
Malta’s potential as an international centre for trade, commerce or
services.
