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Bill No. 44 Entitled The Civil Code (Amendment) Act, 2010 (Bill No. 44)

A BILL

entitled

AN ACT further to amend the Civil Code, Cap. 16

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. The short title of this Act is the Civil Code (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2009, and it shall be read and construed as one with the Civil Code, hereinafter referred to as “the Code”.

2. Sub-article (2) of article 114 of the Code shall be amended as follows:-

(a) for the words “who have been married for a period of not less than three years and are living together,” there shall be substituted the words “who have been married to each other and are living together,”; and
(b) in the proviso thereto, for the words “and that the spouses have been married for less than three years” there shall be substituted the words “and that the spouses are married to each other”.

Short title.

Amendment of article

114 of the Code.

C 228

Objects and Reasons

The object of this Bill is to bring into force the provision of the judgment delivered by the Constitutional Court in res Ruth Debono Sultana and Silvio Debono vs Department for Social Welfare Standards and Minister for Social Policy on the 3rd April, 2009.