Cap. 12 Art. 88ALaw firms.

(1)A law firm shall be registered in the Register maintained by the Committee following an application in writing submitted to the Committee and no partnership or association of persons or other legal entity, howsoever formed and called, shall act or hold itself out as being a law firm and no person shall be entitled, recognised or authorised to act in the name and on behalf of a law firm unless and until it has been duly registered as aforesaid:

Provided that law firms already in existence shall have to be registered within twelve (12) months from the coming into force of this provision, and following such date no person shall be entitled, recognised or authorised to act in the name and on behalf of an unregistered law firm.

(2) The application for registration shall include the following information and documentation:

(a) name of the law firm;

(b) name and surname, date of birth, place of residence and identification number of each member of that law firm;

(c) the name of those advocates vested with the representation and management of the law firm; and

(d) the address of the place from where the law firm shall be providing its services.

(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of the proviso to sub-article (1), any person, not being an advocate, who makes use of the designation "law firm" or any similar designation, whether written or otherwise, or of any other form of language or words that can be perceived as a law firm or which misleadingly imply the existence of a law firm providing legal services in Malta, when no such law firm is registered in the Register maintained by the Committee, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding twelve thousand euro (€12,000) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months or to both such fine and imprisonment.