Notices published in Govt. Gazette No. 20,175 of 23rd April, 2019

Authorisation Examination for the Application of Authorisation of a Service Provider for Electrical Installations as per Legal Notice 225 of 2010 – July 2019

1. The Director of Examinations and the Board of Local Public Examinations notify that an examination will be held between Tuesday, 2nd July, 2019, and Friday, 5th July, 2019, to enable successful candidates to apply to the Regulator for Energy and Water Services for the issue of Authorisations 'A' and 'B' as stipulated in the Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act (Cap. 545) and Legal Notice 225 of 2010.

2. The examination will be held in two sections as follows:

(a) Authorisation 'A' Examination – Single Phase

Paper I (Written)        

Electrical Theory

Time allowed: 3 hours

Marks: 100 (Max.), 50 (Min.)

Paper II (Written)      

Electrical Installation Technology

Time allowed: 3 hours   

Marks: 100 (Max.), 50 (Min.)

Practical Test (Written)/Interview

(Max. 100 marks – Min. 50 marks)

(b) Authorisation 'B' Examination – Three Phase

Paper I (Written)

Electrical Theory

Time allowed: 3 hours

Marks: 100 (Max.), 50 (Min.)

Paper II (Written)      

Electrical Installation Technology

Time allowed: 3 hours  

Marks: 100 (Max.), 50 (Min.)

Practical Test (Written)/Interview

(Max. 100 marks – Min. 50 marks)

3. To be able to apply for Authorisation 'A' or for Authorisation 'B', candidates must obtain a pass mark in both Paper I and Paper II. They will also be required to sit for the Practical Test/Interview and obtain a Pass in order to be successful.

4. Candidates who obtained a pass in either Paper I or in Paper II are not required to sit again for the paper in which they were successful.

5. Candidates need to obtain a pass in both Paper I and Paper II as well as in the Practical/Interview within a period of two years from the date of publication of the first result up to the date of publication of the result of the practical test/interview. The period of two years will be extended to include the first session immediately after the lapse of the two years.

6. Application forms may be obtained from the MEDE One-Stop-Shop, Great Siege Road, Floriana, Department of Examinations, The Mall, Sarria Street, Floriana or the Examinations Centre, Triq Fortunato Mizzi, Victoria, Gozo, or from the Department of Examinations website (www.exams.gov.mt) from Monday, 13th May 2019.

7. Applications will be received as from Monday, 13th May, 2019, to Friday 24th May, 2019, as follows:

MEDE One-Stop-Shop, Triq l-Assedju l-Kbir, Floriana

Monday to Saturday 8.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., and Wednesday between 8.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m and 4.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.

Department of Examinations, The Mall, Triq Sarria, Floriana

Monday to Friday between 8.00 a.m to 12.00 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Examinations Centre, Triq Fortunato Mizzi, Victoria, Gozo

Monday to Friday between 8.00 a.m to 12.00 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

8. The application should be accompanied by:

a) The candidate's identity card or other means of official identification;

b) The registration fee is €9.30, payments being acceptedonlyby credit card or by cheque payable to the Director of Examinations.

9. Original documents and/or certificates are to be invariably produced for verification when submitting the application form and during the interview.

10. Late applications will not be considered.

11. A copy of the syllabus of the examination may be obtained from the website of the Department of Examinations.

12. The Board of Local Public Examinations shall have the power to deal summarily with any candidate who while the examination is in progress, is found to be guilty of misconduct or of any breach of the instructions issued for the guidance of candidates.

13. The Board of Local Public Examinations reserves the right to annul the examination if any irregularity is detected.  Such annulment may be in respect of the whole examination even if the detected irregularity is in respect of only one paper or a particular stage of the examination.

Regulations for Fiscal Receipts Lottery

Conditions regulating the Lottery

The Lottery is drawn once a month and shall include fiscal receipts issued by means of fiscal cash registers or by means of other devices connected to a computer system approved by the Commissioner for Revenue, and fiscal receipts issued manually.

The Lottery shall be drawn on the fifteenth (15) day of each month. If the fifteenth day of the month falls on a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday, the draw shall be made on the following first working day between Monday and Friday. The date and place of the draw shall be established by the officer in charge of Lotteries from time to time.

The draw shall be made under the supervision of a Board made up of the following representatives: a notary from the Office of the Notary to Government, one representative from the Ministry for Finance as duly delegated, and one representative from the Commissioner for Revenue. A representative appointed from among the general public by the Minister responsible for Finance and a representative from the National Audit Office shall also attend for the draw as observers.

Only fiscal receipts issued by means of fiscal cash registers or other devices connected to a computer system approved by the Commissioner for Revenue and fiscal receipts issued manually, during the preceding month shall be eligible to participate in the Lottery. For example, only fiscal receipts issued during the month of January shall be eligible to participate in the draw held in February.

Only original receipts which contain the information specified in the Value Added Tax Act, 1998 and regulations made under that Act, shall be eligible to participate in the draw. Any other receipts shall be considered invalid if drawn.

The allocated prize fund for this lottery shall be of EUR 58,234, or any other amount which the Minister responsible for Finance may establish from time to time.

The draw of the winning receipts shall be made from an urn or urns located at the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit.

A win shall be determined by the drawn receipt being declared valid, and afterwards, the value of the receipt, namely the total final amount payable, shall be multiplied by one hundred (x100). In this respect, a receipt having a value of EUR 23.29 shall be multiplied by one hundred (x100) and the prize will be EUR 2,329. A receipt for EUR 11.65 shall entitle the winner to a prize of EUR 1,165.

Each winning receipt shall entitle the winner to a minimum prize of EUR 233 but such entitlement shall be limited to a maximum of EUR 11,647. In this respect, receipts with a value of up to EUR 2.33 shall entitle the winner to a prize of EUR 233 but a winning receipt with a value of EUR 139.76 shall entitle the winner to a prize of only EUR 11,647 and not EUR 13,976.

Receipts will continue to be drawn until the total prize fund of EUR 58, 234 is reached. The last valid receipt drawn before the maximum total of EUR 58, 234 allocated to the prize fund is reached shall be honoured, even if by the draw of this last receipt, the allocated sum of EUR 58,234 is exceeded.

Undrawn receipts shall be destroyed by the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit within a reasonable time from the date of each draw.

How to participate in the Lottery

In order to participate, one should retain all the original receipts of each particular month.

On the reverse side of each receipt, all persons wishing to participate should write their full surname and full identity card number (including the end letter) in a clear and legible manner, and if they so desire, their name, full address and telephone number.

In case there will be details of more than one participant on the reverse side of the receipt, the prize will be given to the holder of the first legible identity card number.

At the beginning of the following month, and in any case not later than noon of the tenth (10) day of that month, the participant should post or deliver to the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit, an envelope containing all his receipts.

Envelopes containing receipts which are received at the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit after the closing time of the tenth (10) of the month shall not be considered valid for the next draw.

Where the tenth (10) of the month falls on a Sunday or public holiday, the date on which the Department may receive envelopes containing receipts shall be extended to 12 noon of the first working day following that Sunday or Public Holiday.

All the envelopes containing receipts which are received by the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit up to 12 noon of the tenth (10) of each month as indicated in paragraph 6, shall be put in a box or boxes reserved for this purpose. Such box or boxes shall be sealed and kept within the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit.

On the eleventh (11) day of each month or on the day following the closing date in terms of paragraph 6, all the receipts in the envelopes shall be transferred to a sealed urn or sealed urns.

After the draw, the winners will receive the prize by Registered Mail from the Fiscal Receipts Lottery Unit.

All wins registered in a draw shall be publicly broadcast through the media.

Prizes which are not collected and/or where the identity of the staker of the winning receipt cannot be ascertained, shall be transferred to a special fund and will be disposed of as the Minister responsible for Finance may direct.

This notice supersedes the one published in the Government Gazette No. 12,887 of the 17th November, 2017.

Suspension of Parking

The Ħamrun Local Council notifies that parking spaces will be taken up in Triq Oscar Zammit from 9.30 a.m. till 6.00 p.m. on Friday, 3rd May, 2019.