Government Notices published in Government Gazette No. 21,349 of 22nd November 2024

Delegation of Certain Powers Respecting the Public Service

BY the Honourable Dr Robert Abela, KUOM, BA, LLD, Adv., Trib., Melit., MP, Prime Minister.

WHEREAS article 110 of the Constitution of Malta provides that power to make appointments to public offices and to remove persons holding or acting in any such offices shall vest in the Prime Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission;

AND WHEREAS it is further provided in the same article that the Prime Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission, may delegate in writing any of the aforementioned powers to such public officer or other authority as may be specified in the Instrument of Delegation;

AND WHEREAS the Public Service Commission has recommended that the power to make appointments to public offices under article 110 of the Constitution, of persons favourably considered by the Committee appointed by the Principal Permanent Secretary for the purpose of evaluating requests for the re-employment of former public officers who had resigned from the Public Service and the re-instatement of public officers who had retired on medical grounds or on grounds of public interest, be delegated to the Permanent Secretary responsible for the central administration of human resources and people management,

Provided that:

​1. such persons have no suspended disciplinary cases in terms of sub-regulation 33 (3) of the Public Service Commission Disciplinary Regulations (S.L. Const. 07);

2. the power delegated by this Instrument should be exercised subject to the provisions of the Public Service Commission Appointments Regulations, any provisions of any other law that may apply, and any directives and guidelines issued by the Public Service Commission or by the Principal Permanent Secretary with the approval of the Public Service Commission;

3. the power delegated by this Instrument may otherwise be exercised without reference to the Public Service Commission; and

4. the above mentioned delegation of power should be subject to the proviso that the Public Service Commission reserves the right to make, at any time, a recommendation to the Prime Minister that this Instrument of Delegation be withdrawn or amended and that, upon such a recommendation being made and until the Prime Minister acts upon such a recommendation, the powers delegated by this Instrument shall be suspended;

AND WHEREAS I agree with the said recommendations:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ROBERT ABELA, KUOM, BA, LLD, Adv., Trib., Melit., MP., Prime Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred by article 110 of the Constitution, do hereby direct that the power set out above be delegated to the Permanent Secretary responsible for the central administration of human resources and people management in accordance with and subject to the foregoing provisions of this Instrument, as recommended by the Public Service Commission.

THIS INSTRUMENT of delegation shall be in addition and without prejudice to other Instruments of Delegation which have been issued in terms of article 110 of the Constitution.

GIVEN under my hand at the

Auberge de Castille, Valletta

this 12th day of November, 2024

IT is notified for general information that the following Bill is published in the Supplement to this Gazette:

Bill No. 119 entitled the Health (Amendment) Act, 2024.

22nd November 2024

Application Number: 1122/2024

By a decree dated 16th November, 2024, the Court of Revision of Notarial Acts found that Notary Dr Nicholas Charles Vella failed to execute what he has been ordered to do in its decree of the 10th October, 2024, and consequently after having seen Article 124 (4) of Chapter 55 of the Laws of Malta, orders the partial incapacitation of the said notary with immediate effect and up to such time when he shall have executed the order given to him by the aforesaid decree.

Adrian Micallef

Deputy Registrar, Court of Revision of Notarial Acts

Application Number: 1123/2024

By a decree dated 16th November, 2024, the Court of Revision of Notarial Acts found that Notary Dr Roberta Galea Mamo failed to execute what she has been ordered to do in its decree of the 10th October, 2024, and consequently after having seen Article 124 (4) of Chapter 55 of the Laws of Malta, orders the partial incapacitation of the said notary with immediate effect and up to such time when she shall have executed the order given to her by the aforesaid decree.

Adrian Micallef

Deputy Registrar, Court of Revision of Notarial Acts

Application Number: 1126/2024

By a decree dated 16th November, 2024, the Court of Revision of Notarial Acts found that Notary Dr Romina Cuschieri failed to execute what she has been ordered to do in its decree of the 10th October, 2024, and consequently after having seen Article 124 (4) of Chapter 55 of the Laws of Malta, orders the partial incapacitation of the said notary with immediate effect and up to such time when she shall have executed the order given to her by the aforesaid decree.

Adrian Micallef

Deputy Registrar, Court of Revision of Notarial Acts

Application Number: 1128/2024

By a decree dated 16th November, 2024, the Court of Revision of Notarial Acts found that Notary Dr Justin Fenech failed to execute what he has been ordered to do in its decree of the 10th October, 2024, and consequently after having seen Article 124 (4) of Chapter 55 of the Laws of Malta, orders the partial incapacitation of the said notary with immediate effect and up to such time when he shall have executed the order given to him by the aforesaid decree.

Adrian Micallef

Deputy Registrar, Court of Revision of Notarial Acts

IN terms of Article 5 (1) (g) of the Monte di Pietà Act (Cap. 269), items held at the Monte di Pietà for a period exceeding three (3) years may be auctioned.

Items held at Il-Monti may be redeemed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, between 8.00 a.m. and noon. It is important that the original pawning ticket issued at the time of deposit, and a valid identity card, be presented upon redemption of items.

Scheme for the Registration of Training Courses Leading to the Certification of Renewable Energy Systems Installers, Providers of Energy Services, Energy Auditors and Energy Managers

WITH reference to Government Notice No. 1302 published in Government Gazette No. 19,359 of the 19th December, 2014 it is notified that paragraph 12(4) shall be substituted by the following:

“(4) The training to energy auditors and energy managers shall lead energy auditors to carry out audits in line with EN ISO 50002 or EN 16247:

(i) In particular, the energy auditor shall be able to issue audits that are based on the following minimum criteria:

(a) be based on up-to-date, measured, traceable operational data on energy consumption and (for electricity) load profiles.

(b) comprise a detailed review of the energy consumption profile of buildings or groups of buildings, industrial operations or installations, including transportation.

(c) identify energy efficiency measures to decrease energy consumption.

(d) identify the potential for cost-effective use or production of renewable energy.

(e) build, whenever possible, on life-cycle cost analysis instead of simple payback periods in order to take account of long- term savings, residual values of long-term investments and discount rates.

(f) be proportionate, and sufficiently representative to permit the drawing of a reliable picture of overall energy performance and the reliable identification of the most significant opportunities for improvement.

Energy audits shall allow detailed and validated calculations for the proposed measures so as to provide clear information on potential savings.

​The data used in energy audits shall be storable for historical analysis and tracking performance.

The training to energy auditors shall include practical examples to decrease energy consumption in buildings, processes and mobility. Furthermore, the training provider is to provide methodologies as to how one can identify the potential of cost-effective use or production of renewable energy in buildings, processes and mobility.

(ii) And energy managers to establish, implement, maintain, and improve an energy management system in line with ISO 50001 (Energy Management Systems).".

Notice in terms of Article 29

IN terms of the proviso to article 29(1) of the Income Tax Management Act, the Commissioner for Tax and Customs hereby notifies the companies listed hereunder by a notice that has been issued by the Malta Tax and Customs Administration. Thus it is in their own interest to call at the Collection Section at Block 5, Office of the Commissioner for Tax and Customs, Floriana, within five days of this notice to collect the mentioned notices.

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