Malta: suspension of legal and judicial times - Amendment
SUSPENSION OF LEGAL AND JUDICIAL TIMES - AMENDMENT (L. n. 162) of 2020/04/28
The title of these regulations is the General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal and Judicial Times (Amendment) Regulations 2020, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal and Judicial Times Regulations, 2020, hereinafter referred to as the “principal regulations”.
These regulations shall also suspend the running of any time period established in any agreement
(whether a private writing or a public deed), including any time period for the performance of any obligation set out in such agreement, if and to the extent that the Closure of the Courts of Justice Order has a direct effect on the ability of any party to exercise its rights or to perform its obligations thereunder;
Sub-regulation 4 thereof, as renumbered, shall be substituted by the following new sub-regulation:
"Any time period suspended pursuant to sub-regulation, shall remain suspended until the twentieth (20th) day following the repeal of the said order of the Superintendent and shall thereafter continue to run".
The suspension established by means of these regulations and its effects shall be deemed to have started to run from 16th March 2020.