S.L. 417.1 Art. 30Details concerning signature on communications.

(1) For the purposes of any communication on paper, the

Office shall accept any form of signature, be it handwritten or a printed or stamped signature, or the use of a seal or of a bar-coded label provided that it complies with the following requirements:

(a) the signature of the natural person who signs shall be accompanied by an indication in letters of the family or principal name and the given or secondary name or names of that person or, at the option of that person, of the name or names customarily used by the said person as well as by an indication of the capacity in which that person signed, where such capacity is not obvious from reading the communication;

(b) the signature shall be accompanied by an indication of the date on which the signing was effected, in the absence of which the date on which the communication bearing the signature was received by the Office shall be deemed to be the date on which the signing is considered to have been effected: Provided further that where the natural person who signs the communication is a Maltese national and his address is on Maltese territory, or where the legal entity on behalf of which the communication is signed is established under Maltese law and has either a domicile or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment on Maltese territory, a seal shall be used instead of a handwritten signature.

(2) For the purposes of any communication in electronic form or by electronic means of transmittal, the Office shall consider such a communication signed if a graphic representation of a signature that complies with the requirements in subregulation (1) appears on that communication as received by the Office: Provided that where such a graphic representation of a signature does not appear on the communication as received by the Office, the communication shall be signed using a signature in electronic form.