Cap. 622 чл. 24Disqualification and restoration of warrant holder. Prohibited agreements.

(1) A conviction by any court in Malta for any crime liable to imprisonment for a term exceeding one (1) year, shall be a cause of prohibition to obtain or retain the warrant.

(2) Such prohibition shall, in the case of a warrant holder, be declared by the Warranting Board by notice published in the Gazette and shall be communicated to the person thus disqualified, unless he has been interdicted by the judgment itself.

(3) The warrant holder shall within fifteen (15) days from the judgment, inform the Warranting Board of his conviction. Failure to do so shall be considered to be an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine (multa) of three thousand euro (€3,000).

(4) When the name of a perit has been erased from a register, the Warranting Board may, either after an application to that effect by the person concerned or otherwise of its own motion if there is agreement with the Council of the Kamra, direct his name to be restored to the appropriate register:

Provided that when an application is made by the person concerned in terms of this sub-article, the Warranting Board shall give the opportunity to the person concerned to make verbal and, or written submissions to support his request:

Provided further that when the Warranting Board decides to refuse an application made by the person concerned in terms of this sub-article, it shall state in detail why the restriction imposed is strictly necessary to preserve public interest.

25.* Any agreement or arrangement purporting to exempt a warrant holder or a partnership of periti from any liability, responsibility or duty under this Act or under any other law, or to relieve them therefrom, or, except under any indemnity insurance as provided under article 18, to indemnify them against any such liability, responsibility or duty shall be null and void:

Provided that this article shall not be construed to mean that a warrant holder or a partnership of periti cannot choose to delegate any of its professional duties and responsibilities to another warrant holder or a partnership of warrant holders by mutual agreement in writing.