ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICES OR BENEFICES (APPOINTMENT BY FOREIGN POWER) ġ CAP. 6.      1
CHAPTER 6 *
 ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICES OR BENEFICES 
(APPOINTMENT BY FOREIGN POWER) 
ORDINANCE
 To make provision relating to the appointment to ecclesiastical offices
or benefices by a foreign Power.
(13th January, 1838) †
 Enacted by ORDINANCE promulgated by PROCLAMATION No.I of
1838, as amended by Legal Notice 46 of 1965.
Short title.
Benefices (Appointment by Foreign Power) Ordinance.
Validity of 
presentation, 
collation or 
appointment to an 
ecclesiastical 
office or benefice 
by foreign Power. 
Amended by: 
L.N. 46 of 1965.
2. If any person shall be presented, collated, or appointed, by
any foreign Power, or by virtue of any instrument purporting to
emanate from any foreign Power, to any ecclesiastical office or
benefice in Malta, such presentation, collation, or appointment,
shall not be valid until it is approved by the Prime Minister.
Appointment of 
administrator of 
vacant office or 
benefice by 
Archbishop of 
Malta,
Amended by:
L.N. 46 of 1965.
3. During the vacancy of any ecclesiastical office or benefice
in Malta, to which it has been customary for any foreign Power to
make the presentation, collation, or appointment, the nomination
which in such cases it has been customary to make, of an
administrator or administrators to collect and administer the fruits
which would have been due to the incumbent of such office or
benefice if the same had not been vacant, shall, with the consent
and approbation of the Prime Minister, be made by the Archbishop
of Malta, or the Vicar Capitular for the time being:
by Prime Minister 
per lapsum        
temporis.
Provided that where the said Archbishop, or Vicar Capitular of
Malta fails, within the time of fifteen days after the vacancy has
occurred, to propose to the Prime Minister a person or persons
approved by the latter, then the appointment shall be made by the
Prime Minister alone; and the administrator or administrators so
appointed shall be responsible to the person or persons who shall
thereafter be legally admitted under this Ordinance to such office
or benefice, in the same manner as any administrator or
administrators appointed by the said Archbishop, or Vicar
Capitular of Malta during the vacancy of any office or benefice,
now is or are by law responsible.
* See  the Bishop of Gozo (Extension of Privileges) Ordinance (Chapter 15).
† See  Government Gazette No.1415 of the 17th January,1838.
