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10 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 17 MARCH 2019 NEWS www.landsauthority.org.mt/services/tendering Lands Authority St. Sebastian Street, Valletta Lands Authority, notifies that: Sealed tenders in respect of the following advertisements have to be dropped in the Tender Box at the Lands Authority, Auberge de Baviere, Valletta by 10.00 am on Thursday, 28th March, 2019. *Advert No. 18 *Advert No. 19 *Advert No. 20 *Advert No. 22 *Adverts appearing for the first time. Tenders should only be made only on the prescribed form, which, together with the relevant conditions and other documents are obtainable from the Lands Authority, Auberge de Baviere, Valletta on any working day between 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. *Advert No. 21 ISSUE OF TENDERS *Advert No. 23 *Advert No. 24 *Advert No. 25 *Advert No. 26 Sale, tale quale of Garage without airspace at No. 7, at Triq Dun Frans Camilleri tar-Rabbat Hamrun, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 95_81_20. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €3,825 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirty- eight thousand and two hundred and fifty Euro (€38,250) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Sale tale quale of a Garage at No. 2, under Block 'G' , Sqaq ta' Frakass, tal-Hawli, Birgu, shown edged in red and marked No. 2 on plan P.D. 78_80_17_A. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €3,780 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirty-seven thousand and eight hundred Euros (€37,800) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Sale of a Site in Triq San Lawrenz,, Birgu as shown edged in red on plan P.D.264_91_A. This site is subject to existing servitudes of adjacent property. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €3,307 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirty-three thousand and sixty-six Euros (€33,066) will not be considered. A fee of €50 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Lease of a Site in front of the Premises at No. 6, Triq il-Mina ta' Hompesch, Zabbar, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 37_81_26_1. This site is subject to existing servitudes of adjacent property. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of one hundred and eighty-five Euro (€185) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Sale of a site in Triq Mikiel Farrugia, Xaghra, Gozo shown edged in red on plan P.D. 2017_0668. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €3,023 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirty thousand two hundred and thirty-three Euro (€30,233) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each coopy of tender document. Lease for commercial purposes of a Boathouse at No. 9, underlying Dawret il-Gzejjer, San Pawl il-Bahar, as shown edged in red and marked No. 9 on plan P.D. 2012_641. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for the amount of €8,850 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of three thousand and six hundred Euro (€3,600) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €50 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Lease for commercial purposes of the Premises at No. 114, Triq l-Ifran corner with Triq San Duminku, Valletta, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 2010_552_A. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for the amount of €11,300 as stipulated on the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirteen thousand and two hundred Euro (€13,200) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €50 will be charged for each copy of tender document. Lease, for the remaining period of the present lease which ends on the 14th March, 2024, of the Bare Shop No. 1, Tarxien Road, Gudja, shown edged in green on plan L.D. 19/83/7.Present tenant does not want to remain in the lease and an interested third party is ready to assume the remaining term of this lease. Offers below the amount of two thousand nine hundred and twenty Euro (€2,920) per annum will not be considered. This tender is subject to a right of first refusal. Sale of two sites off Cospicua Road, Paola, shown edged in red and marked 'I' and 'J' respectively on plan P.D.2011_322. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of two thousand three hundred and thirty-six Euro (€2,336) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. LAURA CALLEJA OVER 18,000 people are reg- istered as organ donors, three years after Malta introduced a donor registry – with six having registered their explicit wish not to be organ donors. That amounts to just 4% of the Maltese population, a consider- ably low number. But before the introduction of the register, the Transplant Sup- port Group had issued 25,000 persons with a donor card. Since the introduction of the donor registry in 2016, donor cards have since been phased out, and persons who held those cards were asked to register their in- tent again. "Efforts are ongoing to encour- age more people to register as organ donors. During the past few weeks, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health personally visited a number of companies to encourage more people to donate. A campaign which was received well from employers and employees alike," a spokesperson for the health ministry said, commenting on the figures. But the low-take up of the initi- ative is also the reason why cam- paigns such as that launched by the family of Drew Abela, a reg- istered donor who saved seven others, fail to increase awareness of organ donation in a country which still has an opt-in dona- tion system. The opt-in system requires donors to register before their death, apart from next-of-kin consent. In September 2018, a petition was started by Michel Camilleri calling on the govern- ment to change the law to an opt-out system which would automatically register everybody over the age of 18 as a potential donor, unless they specifically state otherwise. Countries such as Spain, Italy and Belgium have had opt-out systems for over eight years now. In fact, in 2017 Spain had the highest rate of donation, fol- lowed by Portugal, Croatia, Bel- gium, France and Italy all coun- tries who have similar systems in place. The UK is the next country to follow suit. The new opt-out law, commonly known as the Max and Kira law, will be put into place in 2020. The law's name re- flects the story of Max Johnson, a nine-year-old who received the heart of Kira Ball, also nine, who unfortunately died in a traffic ac- cident in North Devon. In 2011, a study published in the Malta Medical Journal by psychologist Mary Anne Lauri and Dr Joseph Zarb Adami on doctors' attitudes towards or- gan donation, stated that Mal- tese doctors were wary of mak- ing organ donation mandatory. The doctors had argued that introducing the opt-out system would remove the element of altruism from the act of donat- ing an organ – and may make it very difficult for most doctors, who would have to essentially remove organs, at times without the relative's consent. Eight years later Prof. Lauri told MaltaToday that she still thought introducing an opt-out system would have a negative reaction. "By introducing an opt-out system, you would be changing the meaning of organ donation… and taking the right to decide away from the family." Prof. Lauri said that in order to implement the opt-out system, it would require an intensive campaign. "People won't under- stand what the opt-out system means, and the people who will speak out against it will create a lot of fears with negative conse- quences." Prof. Lauri also said miscon- ceptions on organ donation still exist, even though the Catholic Church has adopted a positive narrative on organ donation. "People were afraid that if or- gans were removed from their body after death, they would not be able to go to heaven." Perhaps the most striking qualm is certain doctors' unwill- ingness to take organs from do- nors without the explicit permis- sion of living family members – doctors may not take organs from an individual if their fam- ily is against it, even if that per- son is a registered donor. Prof. Lauri said it was subjective as to whether the rights of the in- dividual superseded the rights of the living family after their death, with the medical com- munity. Campaigners need to ramp up organ donor call with just 18,000 on register