Cap. 296 Art. 10Registration areas.

(1) The Minister shall, from time to time, by order in the Gazette, declare areas in Malta to be registration areas, and shall define such areas by reference to a map included in the order and in such other manner as he may deem appropriate, and such areas shall be known as compulsory registration areas.

(2) Where land is registered under the provisions of article 12(2), article 14(2), articles 15, 16, 16A or 17 that land shall henceforth be deemed to be a compulsory registration area.

(3) The Minister may also declare an area to be partly a compulsory registration area and partly a declaratory registration area, and moreover the same area may be declared to be such a registration area for giving effect to all or any of the purposes and well as any other provision of those Codes or of any other law relative to the registration of certain transfers in the Public

Registry, and which is inconsistent with this Act, shall cease to be operative in respect of land situated in any registration area, and in respect of land that has been registered: Provided that the provisions of article 22 of the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Ordinance, shall have effect notwithstanding any provision of this Act, and this Act shall apply and be construed so as to give full effect to the provisions of the Ordinance aforesaid.