This Legal Notice amends L.N. 141 of 2020 entitled “General Provisions applying to the Suspension of Legal and Judicial Times Regulations 2020 (

The main thrust  of this legal notice is to remove the suspension of the time limits with respect to any decree of any government department, agency or public authority, restricting the suspension to those decrees delivered by the Court.

As a result of this legal notice,  the suspension of the time periods applies to  those time periods stated in any law, whether procedural or substantive, prescriptive or peremptory, and to any time limit laid down in any court decree. This suspension will remain in force until the expiration of 7 days from the lifting of the court closure, following which these time limits will continue to run.

Suspension will continue to apply in respect of any time limit laid down in any agreement, and includes any time limit for the performance of any obligation set out in the agreement if and to the extent that the Closure of Courts  of Justice Order (Legal Notice 65  of 2020)  has a direct effect on the ability of any party to exercise its rights or to perform its obligations in terms of the agreement. This suspension will remain in force until the expiration of 20 days from the lifting of the court closure, following which the time limits will continue to run.

These amendments have a retrospective application as from the 16^th March 2020.

https://legislation.mt/eli/ln/2020/162/eng/pdf