Cap. 12 Art. 763Determination of value for the purpose of establishing court to which appeals from judgments of Gozo court in its superior jurisdiction are to be brought.

(1) In order to determine the court to which an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Magistrates (Gozo) may be brought in cases where the value may only be determined by a valuation of experts, such valuation shall be made in the manner provided in the last preceding article, in pursuance of an order of the said Court of Magistrates upon a demand, which may be even verbal, of both parties or one of them, within the time of six working days from the day of the judgment.

(2) The report shall be sworn by the expert in the presence of the registrar, and inserted in the record.

(3) The demand for the valuation may also be made during the hearing of the cause.

(4) The default of a valuation made under sub-article (1) within the period therein prescribed shall not be a cause of the nullity of the appeal if, upon a valuation made in pursuance of an order of the court before whom the appeal has been brought, it results that the matter of the claim is, by reason of its value, within the appellate jurisdiction of that court.