Month: September 2020

The Ministry for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects, has recently published Legal Notice 369 of 2020, entitled “Extension of Temporary Emphyteusis in a Contract for a Commercial Premises Transferred from the Government, the Lands Authority or Ecclesiastical Entities by Title of Emphyteusis Regulations, 2020”. According to these new regulations, as of the 5th of October […]

On the 30th of October 2015, the Constitutional Court confirmed a decision by the First Hall Civil Court, dated 15th July 2014, wherein it declared that the expropriation of the utile dominium of a piece of land found on Triq ix-Xatt, Ta’ Xbiex, which is presently occupied by the Royal Malta Yacht Club, was carried […]

According to the Private Residential Leases (Tax Rebate) Rules, 2020 (Legal Notice 258 of 2020) issued on the 23rd of June 2020, a person who derives income from a private residential lease could be entitled to a tax rebate if all conditions are satisfied as hereinunder explained. These rules apply to income derived on or […]

In a situation where a vendor (the original vendor) has sold a property by way of a contract of sale, and his purchaser (Purchaser A) later contracts into a second contract of sale with a second purchaser (Purchaser B), the question is – would Purchaser B be bound by the conditions of the original contract […]