S.L. 9.9 Art. 3AHow the electronic mechanism operates.

(1) There shall be an electronic mechanism by which the judicial acts indicated in the Schedule may be filed online in the courts referred to in the Schedule.

(2) These regulations apply only to judicial acts indicated in the electronic mechanism referred to in sub-regulation (1).

(3) Any lawyer, prosecutor in the Attorney General's Office and member of the Police Force who wishes to file a judicial act, as indicated in these regulations, in criminal courts online may do so by filing the same judicial act online through an appropriate site and by paying the fee prescribed by law.

(4) The magistrate conducting an inquiry relating to an in an inquest or a shall, for the purposes of these genere, repertus regulations, be considered as a court and the provisions of these regulations shall apply to such magistrate in the same manner as they apply to the Court of Magistrates (Malta) and to the Court of Magistrates (Gozo) without prejudice to the provisions of the Schedule.