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Inferior Courts (Re-designation) Act (Cap. 340) Consolidated

INFERIOR COURTS (RE-DESIGNATION) [ CAP. 340. 1

CHAPTER 340

INFERIOR COURTS (RE-DESIGNATION) ACT

To provide for the mode in which the Inferior Courts shall be styled.

(1st October, 1990)*

Enacted by ACT VIII of 1990.

1. This Act may be cited as the Inferior Courts (Re- designation) Act.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Court of Magistrates of Judicial Police for the Island of Malta, the Court of Magistrates of Judicial Police for the Islands of Gozo and Comino, and the Court of Judicial Police shall hereinafter be styled as the Court of Magistrates (Malta) or the Court of Magistrates (Gozo), as the case may be:

Sohowever that in any act filed in any such court in its criminal jurisdiction there shall be stated in such act that it is being filed in such court as a Court of Criminal Judicature or as a Court of Criminal Inquiry as the case may be, and in any act filed in the Court of Magistrates (Gozo) in its civil jurisdiction there shall be stated that such act is being filed in its inferior jurisdiction, or in its superior civil or commercial jurisdiction, or as a court of voluntary jurisdiction, or in its inferior or superior appellate jurisdiction, as the case may be.

Short title.

How the Inferior Courts shall be styled.

*See section 1 of the Act as originally enacted, part of which has been omitted under the Statute Law Revision Act, 1980, and Legal Notice No. 142 of 1990.