Cap. 485 Art. 4Power to amend laws. Cap. 460. Cap. 249.

(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the European

Union Act the Prime Minister may, for the purpose of ensuring that any other law properly reflects the adoption of the euro as the currency of Malta and that Malta’s Treaty and international obligations related to, or arising out of the adoption of the euro as the currency of Malta are implemented, by order prescribe that any other law be amended for the said purposes and that such amendment shall have effect immediately subject to the provisions of article 11 of the Interpretation Act which shall apply to any such order.

(2) Orders made in relation to the amendment of primary laws and subsidiary legislation for the conversion of monetary amounts from the Maltese lira to the euro may be made in the Maltese language only, or in the English language only where any such legislation or schedule thereof is published in the English language only.

(3) In this article the term "monetary amounts" includes an amount specified in numerals, words or symbols or in a combination of numerals, words and symbols, howsoever expressed in the amending order even if they appear in a different manner than in the primary or subsidiary legislation.

(4) When in referring to any conversion of a monetary amount there are corresponding grammatical variations of words importing the singular, the plural, the masculine or the feminine, such words laws and regulations, if any, in the language version other than that which shall have been published.