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Notices published in Govt Gazette No 20,192 of 21 May 2019

21/05/2019

Examinations Department

English Language Teaching Council (ELTC)

1. The Director of Examinations and the English Language Teaching Council (ELTC) notify candidates who are interested to sit for the Test for English Language Teachers (TELT) that applications will be received from Monday, 27th May, 2019, to Friday, 31st May, 2019, from:

MEDE One-Stop-Shop

Triq l-Assedju l-Kbir

Floriana, Malta

From Monday to Friday from 8.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 8.00 a.m. until 1.00 p.m. and from 4.30 p.m. until 7.00 p.m.

Or from the offices below:

Examinations Department

The Mall, Triq Sarria

Floriana, Malta

Examinations Centre

Triq Fortunato Mizzi

Victoria, Gozo

Between 8.00 a.m. and noon, as well as from 1.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

2. The examination will consist of a written session, which will be held on Wednesday, 26th June, 2019.

3. Applicants are to apply and pay the relevant fee of €35.

4. All those sitting for the June 2019 TELT session will need to apply for SEPTT (oral test). More details regarding this test are available on the ELT Council website (eltcouncil.gov.mt).

5. Further details related to the call for applications may be obtained from the Examinations Department, The Mall, Triq Sarria, Floriana, Malta, telephone number (+356) 2598 2953, email address (exams.department@gov.mt); or from the Examinations Centre, Triq Fortunato Mizzi, Victoria, Gozo, telephone number (+356) 2155 8341; or from the website (www.exams.gov.mt).

Housing Authority

Equity Sharing Scheme 2019

1. Title and aim of the scheme

This scheme is intended for those applicants who are unable to purchase their residence without the help of Housing Authority. The Scheme, entitled Equity Sharing Scheme will apply for persons over the age of forty (40), who intend to buy their residence by purchasing at least fifty per cent of the property whilst the rest will have to be purchased by them at later stage. On the other side, the Housing Authority will purchase itself the remaining portion not purchased by the applicants which should not be more than fifty percent of the property. After twenty (20) years, the applicants will be obliged to purchase the Housing Authority's share by paying the same price paid by the Authority Housing.

APS Bank plc, subject to all bank's criteria being satisfied, will be granting applicants a maximum loan up to €160,000 to purchase a property in finished and habitable state or in shell form state which can be rendered to a habitable state at the total expense of €200,000.

2. Definition of terms

Throughout the Notice unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) "Advert" means Advert which appears in the Government Gazette of the 21st May, 2019;

(b) "applicant" means a person who applies under this scheme and when application is made by two applicants jointly, shall include all applicants in solidum;

(d) "aggregate annual income" has the same meaning assigned to it in clause 9 of this Scheme;

(e) "basic year" means the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which an application under this Scheme is made and with reference to clause 9;

(f) the word 'bank' and 'financial institutions' have the same definition given to it in the Act of Commercial Banking (Act No XV of 1994);

(g) the word 'beneficiary' means every person who benefits under this Advert.

In this scheme, the singular shall import the plural and the masculine shall import the feminine.

3. Condtions of the scheme

The Housing Authority will finance between twenty thousand and one hundred thousand euro (€20,000 - €100,000) for the purchase of the property which should not exceed the two hundred thousand euro (€200,000). In this way, the Housing Authority becomes a part-owner of the same property.

The applicants will be obliged to finance from their personal assets, at least ten percent (10%) of the price of the property which will be acquired by means of this this scheme.

Applications for the purchase of property exceeding the two hundred thousand euro (€200,000) in value, will not be considered. The Housing Authority reserves the right to inspect the property to ascertain its value.

The Housing Authority shall not oblige the applicants to buy back the investment that the Housing Authority would have made in the purchase of residences before twenty (20) years from the date of sale contract, even though the applicants would be able to do this before the expiry of twenty (20) years. After twenty (20) years, the Housing Authority shall have the right to gather information regarding the assets and income of the applicants. To this effect, the applicants authorise the Housing Authority to obtain all information from banks/entities with regards to investments of the same applicants. This is done to establish whether the applicants would be in a position to be eligible for another loan to purchase the share that the Housing Authority would have in their residence.

In the event, that the applicants will not be in a financial position to purchase the Housing Authority's share, the children or the heirs of the applicants will be given the opportunity to do so. Alternatively, an agreement could be made between the Housing Authority and the applicant, according to conditions laid down by the Housing Authority, so that the amount due will be paid by means of instalments within established periods. In this eventuality, the value of the share of the Housing Authority after twenty (20) years, shall be increased to reflect the rate of inflation of the last twenty (20) years.

If the applicants fail to purchase the remaining portion within the twenty (20) year period from the date of contract and also fail to enter into an agreement with the Housing Authority so that the amount due is paid by means of instalments after the lapse of the twenty (20) years, the applicants will be obliged to pay an annual or monthly amount of money established by the Housing Authority in its absolute discretion, to cover compensation for occupation of undivided share not purchased by them. The Housing Authority reserves the right to impose additional obligations on the undivided share of the property not purchased by the applicants.

The property, which is to be purchased by the applicant, should be built in accordance with building regulations and planning permits, be in a finished and habitable state, or in shell form as long as the purchase price and the amount of the necessary finishing do not exceed €200,000.

The property which qualifies under this scheme should be used and occupied by the applicants exclusively as their ordinary residence.

In case of finished properties, applicants must occupy the property purchased, within six (6) months from the date of deed whilst applicant purchasing properties in shell form, these should occupy the property within two (2) years from the date of the deed.

As long as the Housing Authority is a co-owner with the applicants, the applicants are to be held fully responsible for any necessary ordinary and extraordinary maintenance works and/or repairs.

During the twenty (20) year period, the applicants must not rent or transfer the property under any title to third parties not even by mere tolerance. They should not allow third parties to occupy the immovable property under any title even if by gratuities or by mere tolerance.

Any risks deriving from the property or its whereabouts, on the property, from third party property or on third parties, should be the responsibility of the applicant with the exclusion of the Housing Authority.

The loan facility is only granted by APS Bank plc if all Bank's established conditions and criteria are satisfied. The decision of APS Bank plc in this regards should be final.

The loan facility granted to applicants shall be for a maximum period of twenty (20) years, provided the loan facility is fully repaid by the age of sixty five (65).

The applicants shall settle the established monthly repayment contribution through a direct credit from their Current Account opened with the APS Bank plc for the credit of their salary to the Loan Account. The Authority should be notified immediately when the applicant is in default in his payments.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to impose further obligations on applicant in case of default on the loan or part of the loan by applicants so much so that the Housing Authority will be obliged to settle the loan on behalf of applicants.

4. Number of valid applications

The Housing Authority shall process at least the first three hundred (300) applications that are valid and eligible on a first-come first-served basis.

In cases where the Housing Authority feels that the residence that is about to be purchased is very expensive, it reserves the right to send an architect from the Housing Authority in order to make a valuation of the property. The Housing Authority reserves the right to refuse any application.

5. Who can apply

The following categories of persons, who on the date of the first publication of this advert in the Government Gazette, can apply under this scheme:

(a) one of the applicants must be 40 years old on date of application in case of married couples/two persons who have entered into a civil union;

(b) single parents over 40 years of age with an unmarried son/daughter or unmarried children living with him/her;

(d) single persons aged 40 years or over;

(e) legally separated persons over 40 years of age without children living with her/him the whole time;

Method of application

(a) A person who qualifies under this Scheme shall submit an application on the prescribed form and shall deliver same at the Authority during the prescribed times.

(b) The prescribed forms can be collected from the offices of the Housing Authority 22 Pietro Floriani Street Floriana, Malta and from the Housing Authority branch, 25, Triq Enrico Mizzi, Victoria, Gozo, or from the Housing Authority website.

6. Validity of the application

To be valid the application must satisfy the following requirements:

(a) the application must be made on the prescribed form and must be duly and completely filled;

(b) the application must be signed by all applicants;

(d) the application made by a married/two persons who have entered into a civil union but separated person or made by a person whose civil status has been changed after the marriage/civil union must be accompanied by an authenticated deed of separation or by a Decreeof the Competent Court.

8. Qualifications to apply

On the date of publication of this Advert in the Government Gazette, the applicants should in all circumstances satisfy the following criteria:

(a) applicants are Maltese Citizens and citizens of the EU. EU Citizens must be acquiring their first residence and must satisfy the criteria issued by any Authority and/or by the Office of the Prime Minister. In the case of married couples/two persons who have entered into a civil union and who are not legally separated, one of the couple must be Maltese Citizen;

(b) single applicants, and in case of two applicants applying jointly, married couples/two persons who have entered into a civil union, at least one of the applicants should be gainfully employed on full-time basis, for at least one year from date of publication of the scheme;

(d) during the preceding year of application, applicants should not have an annual aggregate income exceeding forty thousand euro (€40,000);

(e) do not have immovable unbuilt property either in whole or in part ownership, either on their own or in partnership, on absolute ownership on perpetual emphyteusis and on which a building permit for habitation purposes has been issued or could have been issued by the Planning Authority;

(f) do not have in full ownership or in part ownership, either alone or together with others, premises suitable for habitation purposes or on perpetual emphyteusis or on temporary emphyteusis of more than 40 years duration from the date of original constitution of the emphyteutical grant of the said temporary emphyteusis;

(g) do not possess holdings or shares in any commercial body which after the date of the first publication of this Advert in the Government Gazette has immovable property or as mentioned in the two preceding subparagraphs;

However an applicant will not be disqualified for the simple reason that he/she possesses property as detailed in paragraphs above, if in the absolute discretion of the Housing Authority, the occupied premises are not adequate for accommodation of the applicant/s and his family, or because of legal, technical or logistic problems cannot be used for habitation or disposed off in a relatively short period so as to ascertain its value.

The Chairman of the Authority may consider as unacceptable, any declaration of income of the applicants if, in his absolute discretion, he decides that this is incorrect or untrue.

9. Annual aggregate income

For all purposes of the application, calculation of the aggregate annual income of applicant shall be as follows:

(a) the gross income from any occupation, salary and/or other social benefits (excluding overtime, children's allowance and any other disability allowances) earned by the applicants during the basic preceding calendar year. When the application is made by two applicants the gross income of both applicants is taken into consideration.;

(b) the applicant's income during the basic calendar year from capital assets such as; bank deposits, stocks, shares, rents, investments in commercial enterprises, other investments in property, including capital gains;

(c) from the gross annual income of a separated person any amount paid to the other part as alimony will be deducted. This amount will be deducted after a document is provided, signed by the lawyers of both parties, with a declaration that the official amount as declared in the Deed of Separation is in fact being paid.

10. Disqualification

Persons shall not qualify to make an application under this scheme if:

(a) the aggregate annual income exceeds the amount as laid down in Clause 9 (d) and/or;

(b) they are not legally separated;

(c) if from assets, applicants cannot finance ten percent (10%) of the price of the property being purchase by means of this scheme;

(d) the applicant is not gainfully employed on full-time basis and/or has not been gainfully employed on full-time basis during the year preceding the date of the publication of this scheme in the Government Gazette.

11. Transfer of property

If the applicants wish to transfer the property to third parties before they would have become the sole-owners of the property, the transfer has to be done only to the Housing Authority where the latter would reimburse the applicant the same amount paid on contract when acquiring their share.

During the time that the beneficiaries are not the sole-proprietors of the property, in other words, they would not have purchased the Housing Authority's share of the property, they are not permitted to rent the property to third parties or in any way transfer the property to third parties. They cannot allow third parties to occupy these premises not even on mere tolerance or by gratuitous title but are obliged to use the property solely as their residence. The beneficiaries are obliged to maintain the residence in a good state of repair during the whole time. The beneficiaries would be bound to live in the residence and use it as their ordinary residence for at least twenty (20) years from date of purchase of their share. The beneficiaries cannot carry out any structural alterations in the property without obtaining the written approval from the Housing Authority.

12.Information

The Authority may require the applicants to sign and confirm any declaration in any form even under oath it may consider necessary for the carrying out of this scheme.

13.Penalty for false information

If at any time, it results that applicants have made a false declaration or given incorrect information/documents for the purposes of any application, without prejudice to any penalty for which they may have become liable under any other law, applicants shall be liable to the payment to the Authority, of a fine which the Authority deems fit. They will also be disqualified for a period of five (5) years from benefiting from any scheme made with the approval of the Minister responsible for Housing and shall forfeit the right to any benefit under this scheme.

Incorrect or false declaration/documents may also lead the applicant to the commencement of criminal procedures against him.

14. Administrative charges and abandoned applications

(a) Each application for assistance under this Scheme shall be lodged to the Authority and that application shall not be accepted unless accompanied by the sum of twenty euro (€20) as an administrative charges and together with all the necessary documents. Additionally the applicant shall pay a charge to cover expenses on researches to be carried out by the Housing Authority on the applicant on his/her behalf.

(b) Where any applicant under this scheme stops the processing of the application, the application shall be deemed to have been abandoned and any expenses and deposits incurred by the applicants in connection with their application, shall not be recoverable by the applicants whether or not their application is successful. These deposits are not refundable for any reason.

15.Right of refusal

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Scheme, the Authority shall have the right to refuse any application.

16. Duration of scheme

This Scheme shall remain in force for a period of one (1) year from the date of its publication in the Government Gazette or until three hundred (300) valid applications are processed whichever comes first. In this eventuality, the Housing Authority reserves the right to publish a notice in the Government Gazette indicating the withdrawal of the scheme.

17. Interpretation

In case the Maltese text differs from the English text, the Maltese text will prevail.

18. Amendment of scheme

The Authority shall have the right to make any amendments to this Scheme by publication of the said amendments in the Government Gazette. Such amendments may be made applicable retroactively. No amendments shall subject the Authority to an action for damages or any other legal action. The conditions of this scheme should form an integral part of the deed and in case were the conditions of this scheme are different from the conditions indicated in the deed, the conditions which are most favourable to the Authority are to be applied.

ARMED FORCES OF Malta

Extension Pembroke Ranges

June 2019

Live Fire will take place on the dates indicated hereunder for Pembroke Ranges and will be extended from 2.00 p.m. till 6.00 p.m.

On Monday, 17th June, 2019

On Tuesday, 18th June, 2019

On Wednesday, 19th June, 2019

On Thursday, 20th June, 2019

Live Fire will take place on Wednesday, 26th June, 2019, for Pembroke Ranges and will be extended from 2.00 p.m. till 11.00 p.m.

GENERAL ELECTIONS ACT (CAP. 354)

Notice

In terms of article 43 of the General Elections Act (Cap. 354), it is notified that by order of the Revising Officer, the following additions and corrections were made in the Electoral Register published in April, 2019.

ADDITIONS

Bajada Patricia – 59156G – Dar Bajada, Triq Ta' Brieret, Ix-Xagħra

Barbara Josephine – 349539M – Triq San Pietru, Kunvent ta' San Ġużepp, Tas-Sliema

Borg Anthony – 238995M – 32B, Triq 1-Għar ta' Xerri, Ix-Xagħra

Bugeja Shirley Rose – 51773M – 67, Casa Da Rosa, Triq ir-Ramla, In-Nadur

Farrugia Marco – 33156G – Cheynne, Triq l-Isqof Mikiel Molina, L-Għarb

Grima Mario – 69251G – 6, Triq l-Isqof Mikiel Buttigieg, Il-Qala

Grima Rita – 2215L – 54, Triq Ta' Għammar, L-Għasri

Mercieca Rosaria – 406451M – Cheynne, Triq l- Isqof Mikiel Molina, L-Għarb

Micallef Frances – 261408L – St John Crt, Fl 4, Triq Ta' Mulejja, Il-Fontana

Micallef Joe (Joseph) – 457452M – St John Crt, Fl 4, Triq Ta' Mulejja, Il-Fontana

Portelli Alfred – 25042M – 5, Triq il-Ġiżi, San Ġwann

Portelli Maria Nadya – 158052M – 5, Halcyon, Triq il-Ġiżi, San Ġwann

Schembri Giuseppa – 482442M – 5, Triq Santu Rokku, Kunvent tad-Dorotej, L-Imdina

Sciberras Francis – 153157M – 41, Casa Santa Maria, Triq Santa Katarina, L-Imqabba

Sultana Patricia – 728061M – Hasi F/H, Triq Ta' Manduca, Is-Siġġiewi

Vella Gianluca – 296396M – 92, Triq San Ġużepp, Paola

Giordano Kurt – 108103L – Fl. 2, Triq Ta' Lhud, Blk 7, Il-Birgu

Hirvensalo Taina Aulikki – 48703A – Sacred Heart Crt, Fl 1, Triq il- Kapuċċini, Ir-Rabat (Għawdex)

CORRECTIONS

Bonavia Gracie – 115951M – 116, Triq il-Forġa, Simblija Care Home, In-Naxxar

għandha tinqara – should read

Bonavia Gracie – 115951M – 116, Simblija, Triq il-Forġa, In-Naxxar

Bonavia Victor – 588850M – 116, Triq il-Forġa, Simblija Care Home, In-Naxxar

għandu jinqara – should read

Bonavia Victor – 588850M – 116, Simblija, Triq il-Forġa, In-Naxxar

Borg Alexander – 32095G – Sacred Heart Crt, Fl. 4, Triq San Xmun, Xlendi, Il-Munxar

għandu jinqara – should read

Borg Alexander – 32095G – 80, Triq Dun Bernard Haber, In-Nadur

Gauci Charles – 120294M – Torri Crt, Fl. 1, Triq it- Torri, Ta' Kerċem

għandu jinqara – should read

Gauci Charles – 120294M – 107, Copenhagen, Triq Anici, Ħal Qormi

Mifsud Maria Grazia K/A M. Dolores – 828954M – Triq il-Kbira, Istitut tal-Ursolini, Ħaż-Żabbar

għandha tinqara – should read

Mifsud Maria Grazia K/A M. Dolores – 828954M – 70, Triq tal-Virtù, Kunvent tal-Ursolini, Ir-Rabat (M)

Selis Vincent – 78029A – 17, Triq Salvu Camilleri, Il-Mellieħa

għandu jinqara – should read

Selis Vincent – 78029A – 78, Roluvel, Fl. 2, Triq Snajjin, Il-Mellieħa