Cap. 69 Art. 16Constitution of the Board.

(1) There shall be a Board to be known as the Rent

Regulation Board.

(2) The Board shall consist of a Chairman who shall be appointed by the President of Malta from among the judges and magistrates.

(3) The President of Malta may appoint several judges or magistrates to sit on the Board, but only one judge or magistrate shall sit in any one case.

(4) Without prejudice to any other law the Board shall also decide all matters affecting the leases of urban property including residential as well as commercial property in terms of Title IX of

Part II of Book Second of the Civil Code, Of Contracts of Letting and Hiring, including causes relating to the occupation of urban property where such leases have expired after the termination of the however, that any other matter following the determination of such matters relating to validity shall fall under the competence of the Rent Board.

The Rent Board shall also have the competence to decide demands related to maintenance, repairs, defects and faults of the tenement including latent ones, damages or improvements, amounts due for water and electricity and any amount left by way of security deposit by the tenant, where such demands are included in other demands or pleas made before the Board, over which the Adjudicating Panel has no jurisdiction.