GOVERNMENT NOTICES

No. 330

ACTING PRIME MINISTER

IT is notified for general information that, acting on the advice of the Prime Minister, the President of Malta has directed that the Hon. Leo Brincat, FCIB, MP, Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change, assumes the additional duties of the Prime Minister, on Monday, 20th April, 2015, during the absence from Malta of the Hon. Joseph Muscat, KUOM, BCom, BA (Hons), MA (European Studies), PhD (Bristol), MP. 

20th April, 2015

No. 331

LEGAL NOTICES PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

IT is notified for general information that the following Legal Notices were published in the Supplement to the Government Gazette No. 19,410 of 14th April, 2015 and No. 19,411 of 17th April, 2015.

L.N. 132 of 2015: Gaming Act (Cap. 400); Cruise Casino Regulations, 2015.

L.N. 133 of 2015: Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234); Merchant Shipping (Ship Inspection and Survey Organisations) (Amendment) Regulations, 2015.

L.N. 134 of 2015: Banking Act (Cap. 371); Notice of Coming into force of Supervisory Consolidation Regulations, 2014.

L.N. 135 of 2015: Commissioner of Land Ordinance (Cap. 169); Commissioner of Land (Transfer of Rights and Liabilities) Order, 2015.

L.N. 136 of 2015: Income Tax Act (Cap. 123); Individual Savings Account (Amendment) Rules, 2015.

L.N. 137 of 2015: Commissioner of Land Ordinance (Cap. 169); Commissioner of Land (Transfer of Rights and Liabilities) (Amendment of Order No. 7 of 2014) Order, 2015.

L.N. 138 of 2015: Housing Authority Act (Cap. 261);  Housing Authority (Transfer of Assets) (No. 2) Order, 2015.

21st April, 2015

No. 332

PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSION ACT

(CAP. 471)

Appointment of the Malta Psychology Profession Board

IT is hereby notified for general information that in exercise of the powers conferred by article 4 of the Psychology Profession Act, and for the purpose of that Act, the Minister for the Family and Social Solidarity has approved the appointment of Dr Neville Young, LLD, as member of the Malta Psychology Profession Board, in lieu of Dr Edward Gatt, LLD. This appointment shall remain valid until the 3rd March, 2017.

21st April, 2015

No. 333

APPOINTMENT OF ACTING ACCOUNTANT GENERAL

THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Finance has approved the following acting appointment:

NAME                                                      POSITION                                               DEPARTMENT                        DATE

Mr Michael Zammit Munrò              Accountant General           Treasury                                20-22.4.15

21st April, 2015

No. 334

APPOINTMENT OF ACTING DIRECTOR

LOCal GOVERNMENT

THE Permanent Secretary within the Ministry for Justice,  Culture and Local Government has approved the following acting appointment:

NAME                                                      POST                                       DEPARTMENT                        DATE

Mr Silvio Frendo                  Acting Director                    Local Government               22-23.04.2015

21st April, 2015

No. 335

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Re-appointment of Chairman

IN terms of Article 3 of the Malta Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Energy and Health has re-appointed Ing. James Camenzuli as Chairman of the Malta Resources Authority. The appointment is with effect from the 5th March, 2015, for a period of one year.

1st March, 2015

No. 336

Excise Duty ACT

(CAP. 382)

Exemption Order

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 14(2)(c) of the Excise Duty Act, the Minister for Finance hereby notifies that the Armed Forces of Malta will be exempt from payment of excise duty on ammunition cartridges listed hereunder and brought to Malta in container number FPMU2519302-000932 and container number FPMU2550458-000933: 

Ser              Item                  Quantity                   Unit

1    7.62 X 39mm (Live)   500,000    Armed Forces of Malta

2    7.62 X 39mm (Blank)                   100,000                Armed Forces of Malta

3    7.62 X 54mm (Live)   500,000    Armed Forces of Malta

4    7.62 X 54mm (Blank)                   100,000                Armed Forces of Malta

This exemption is to be understood that it is a one time exemption.

21st April, 2015

No. 337

DUTY ON DOCUMENTS AND TRANSFERS ACT (CAP. 364)

Notice in terms of Article 61 (1)

In Terms of the proviso to article 61 (1) of the Duty on Documents and Transfer Act, the Commissioner of Inland Revenue hereby notifies the persons listed hereunder to call at the Capital Transfer Duty Department, 46,Triq il-Merkanti,  Valletta, to collect the notices made on such persons.

Name                                                                                                   ID  Number                                       Claim Number

Borg Rosella                                                                                      209256M                                                 IV 128696

Alaawer Hamza                                                                                24335A                                                    IV 129326

McKay Shawn                                                                                  224277M                                                 IV 128252

Carmelo Stivala Group Ltd                                                            C 62625                                                   IV 129270

K & M Contractors Limited                                                            C 39982                                                   IV 129413

Fenech Letterina                                                                               377837M                                                 CM 041083

21st April, 2015

No. 338

MALTA TREASURY BILLS ACT

(CAP. 133)

Notice of Issuance Calendar

The following calendar shows the tenor of individual weekly issues of Treasury bills for the month of May 2015 and is published by the Accountant General in terms of regulation 5 of the Malta Treasury Bills (Dematerialisation) Regulations, 2007 of Legal Notice No. 59 of 2007:

Treas Bills Gaz 21.4.pdf

No. 339

GOLDSMITHS AND SILVERSMITHS ACT

(CAP. 46)

THE Commissioner of Inland Revenue notifies that on the date shown hereunder, the price of gold and silver on which valuations made by the Consuls for Goldsmiths and Silversmiths are based has been fixed for the purposes of article 14 of the said Act as follows:

Date                                   Pure Gold                                     Pure Silver

                                                Grams                                            Grams

21.4.2015                            €36.141                                          €0.519

21st April, 2015

No. 340

MINISTRY FOR ENERGY AND HEALTH

Registration of Solar Water Heaters, Solar Collectors and Photovoltaic Systems - Amendment to the Scheme

IN accordance with section 5, (Amendments and duration of Government Notice) of Government Notice 52 published in the Government Gazette dated 15th January, 2010, the Malta Resources Authority is making the following amendments to the Scheme.

1. (a) In Section 1 of the Scheme the definition of ‘third party certificate’ shall be substituted by the following:

‘third party certificate’ means a final report from a third party certifying body which states that equipment or systems are in accordance with the standards required by this Government Notice. The certificate shall be valid at the time of registration and shall have an expiry date. In the case where a certificate does not have an expiry date, the modules will be listed for expiry 3 years from the date of issue of the certificate. Such a certificate will only be considered if it is:

(i) an original; or

(ii) confirmed as a true copy of the original by the third party certifying body; or

(iii) publically available in the website of the third party certifying body.

(b) In Section 1 of the Scheme the definition of ‘third party certification by certified bodies’ shall be substituted by the following:

‘third party certification’ means certification from third party certifying bodies which through necessary verifications and assessments carried out, issue third party certificates with regard to eligible equipment after this has passed tests carried out by a third party test laboratory;

(c) In Section 1 of the Scheme the definition of ‘third party test laboratory’ shall be substituted by the following:

‘third party test laboratory’ means an independent accredited organization which is accredited for the applicable testing by the Malta Standards Authority or an equivalent organisation (i.e. Accreditation bodies which are members of the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) or International Accreditation Forum (IAF) Multilateral Recognition Agreement (MLA) are considered as equivalent to MSA) that performs tests under certain controlled conditions which are made to demonstrate compliance with EU technical standards;

2. (a) A new paragraph (viii) shall be inserted in Section 2 as follows:

(viii) Installations shall be carried out by installers certified in accordance with Government Notice 404 of the 14th May, 2013 for the installation of the relevant technology. Retailers shall notify the Authority of the installers and engineers with whom they have a contractual relationship. Retailers shall be registered if they have a contractual relationship with:

At least one warranted electrical engineer who can certify installations of PV systems; and

At least one installer certified in accordance with Government Notice 404 of the 14th May, 2013 for the installation of the relevant technology:

This clause shall apply for PV installations as from 1 June, 2015 and to other system installations as from 1 June, 2016. Retailers who do not have such contractual relationships can be registered provisionally for a period of 6 months.

(b) The words ‘provisionally’ and ‘provisional’ shall be deleted in paragraph (v) of Section 2. The following sentences shall be added at the end of paragraph (v) of Section 2:

The retailer shall have the responsibility to behave in a competent, professional and honest manner. The Authority may withdraw or suspend registration in cases of improprieties, including financial malpractice or suspected fraud; improper conduct or unethical behavior; failure to comply with legislation or scheme conditions; danger to health, safety or the environment; criminal activity by the retailer or his/her employees within the ambit of the scheme; or attempts to abet or conceal any of these actions or attempt to induce others to facilitate such actions.

3. (a) Paragraph ii of Section 3 shall be replaced by the following:

“The systems or equipment shall be registered by the Authority when certified as compliant with MSA EN standards as specified in this Government Notice, for the duration of validity of the third party certificate. The Authority shall register eligible systems or equipment in one of the lists of eligible technologies. The full content of the applicable EN standards can be made available for viewing at the Malta Standards Authority.”

(b) In paragraph iii of Section 3, the words “Certified true copies of third party certification by certifying bodies” shall be substituted by the words “Third party certificates”;

(c) Paragraph iii (a) of Section 3 shall be substituted by the following:

PV Module Models shall be certified by the third party certifying body as compliant with MSA EN 61215 or MSA EN61646 or an equivalent thereof when so considered by the Malta Standards Authority.

Inverters shall be accompanied by a letter from the distribution system operator (Enemalta plc) stating that the inverter model meets the certification, testing and connection requirements as specified in the network code. Until such time that the network code includes such provisions, the following shall apply:

as from 1st May, 2015, inverters shall be provisionally registered if they are certified by the third party certifying body as compliant with MSA EN 50438 or an equivalent thereof when so considered by the Malta Standards Authority. G83/2 certification will be considered as equivalent to EN50438. In the case of inverters that do not fall within the scope of MSA EN 50438, G59/3 certification by a third party certifying body shall be accepted.

Inverters registered as part of PV systems with the Authority up to the 30th April, 2015 shall continue to be such registered until the 31st December, 2015, following which new registration shall be required;

(d) Paragraph (d) of Section 3 iii shall be deleted.

(e) In paragraph iv of Section 3, the words “Where testing has been carried out by an independent certifying body or third party test laboratory, which is accredited for the applicable testing by the Malta Standards Authority or an equivalent organisation, a report prepared and issued by such laboratory shall be provided to the Authority, which report shall contain the results of the testing carried out. Such testing report shall:” shall be substituted by the words: “The Authority may request a report of the results of the tests carried out on the equipment. Such testing report shall:”

(f) Paragraph vii of Section 3 shall be substituted by the following:

“Proof of compliance with the standards required to be complied with by this Government Notice shall be made through the submission of third party certificates.”

4. The Schedule shall be substituted by the following two schedules on pages from 8959 to 8965:

5. This Government Notice has been notified in terms of Directive 98/34/EC, as amended by Directive 98/48/EC, as transposed by the Notification Procedure Regulations.

Energy Scheme App forms Gaz 21.4.pdf

21st April, 2015