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maltatoday | TUESDAY • 15 OCTOBER 2019 19 NEWS Sale of a site in Triq Bertha K.Ilg, San Ġiljan, as shown edged in red on plan P.D.2009_777. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €2,800 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of twenty-eight thousand Euros (€28,000) will not be considered. A fee of €50 will be charged for each copy of the tender document. 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, 24 th October, 2019. *Advert No.189 *Advert No. 190 Sale of a site to be used for gardening purposes in front of the House at No. 33 named 'Andreanth', Triq id-Dahla ta' San Tumas, Zejtun shown edged in red and marked Site 'A'on the plan P.D. 7_80_98. This site is subject to existing servitudes in favour 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 eight thousand and eighty Euros (€8,080) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of the tender document. *Advert No. 191 Sale of a site to be used for gardening purposes in front of the House at No. 34 named 'Big Bon', Triq id-Dahla ta' San Tumas, Zejtun shown edged in red and marked Site 'B'on the plan P.D. 7_80_98. This site is subject to existing servitudes in favour 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 four thousand five hundred and forty-five Euros (€4,545) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of the tender document. *Advert No. 193 Grant on a temporary emphyteusis for a period of forty-five (45) years tale quale in its present state including any latent defects of the premises at No. 24, Triq San Ġużepp, Sliema as shown edged in red on the plan P.D. 2015_0172. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €22,155 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of seven thousand three hundred and eighty-five Euros (€7,385) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €100 will be charged for each copy of the tender document. *Adverts appearing for the first time. Tenders should be submitted only on the prescribed form, together with the relevant conditions and other documents, that are obtainable from the Lands Authority, Auberge de Baviere, Valletta on any working day between 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Tender fees are non-refundable *Advert No. 192 Sale of a site adjacent to premises at No. 1 'L-Ghanja', Triq il-Mahlug corner with Triq il-Qoton, Naxxar, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 2019_0007. This site is subject to existing servitudes in favour of the 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 five thousand five hundred and thirty-five Euros (€5,535) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of the tender document. ISSUE OF TENDERS MATTHEW AGIUS THREE judges presiding the Constitutional Court have told a lawyer representing ministers Chris Cardona, Edward Scicluna and Konrad Mizzi they were "not amused" by a last-minute appli- cation to not have the ministers testify today in a case filed by the Leader of the Oppo-sition. Chief Justice Joseph Azzopardi, Mr. Justice Giannino Caruana Demajo and Mr. Justice Noel Cuschieri presided the sitting in a case filed by PN leader Adrian Delia for the publication of the 1,500-page Egrant report. The ministers had been sum- moned to testify about how an unpublished extract of the top secret Egrant report ended up being quoted by them in court submissions on the Vitals in- quiry. They had filed an applica- tion to be exempted from testi- mony last week. "You had all summer to pre- sent it and you presented it at the last minute…You are not a new graduate lawyer, you have certain experience…even out of respect to the parties," Chief Justice Joseph Azzopardi ad- monished lawyer Aaron Mifsud Bonnici. Mifsud Bonnici explained that the pending proceedings before the Criminal Court could im- pinge on the proceedings, hence the delay. He argued that his clients were within their rights not to exhibit it. "This side is saying you can- not oblige a person to exhibit the document… it is not right to exhibit the document due to its content." Mifsud Bonnici argued that that the ministers need not tes- tify at all, because of the crimi- nal proceedings and pending inquiry. Chief Justice Azzopardi sug- gested that the public part of the inquiry be compared with what the ministers had said to see if they tallied, but lawyer Vincent Galea, appearing for Oppo- sition Leader Adrian Delia was having none of it: "If they tell us that they have a copy of the in- quiry, it'll solve everything," he quipped. The Chief Justice said he could not force them to present a copy if there were valid reasons. "Where will it end?" asked Mifsud Bonnici. "The prin- ciple of exhibiting part of the inquiry sets a precedent," he began, but was interrupted by Galea: "It was on the newspa- pers. All Malta has a copy!" Attorney General Peter Grech submitted that one could not be forced to testify about some- thing which one could not ex- hibit. Galea shot this down again. "The AG is asking to revise the court's decree, which he had ob- jected to and was overruled." "Section 518 mentioned by the AG applies to documents… it is a basic point from law school… a certain content of documents. But it is taken from the public part of the inquiry which was published in the newspapers. So, if the document was secret, this no longer ap-plies, because we'd be saying that there is such a document. "First the Prime Minister said it was only the AG who had a copy, then it emerged that the justice minister had one, then lawyer Pawlu Lia, then Kurt Far- rugia, then these three minis- ters," the lawyer fumed, asking where the country's checks and balances were. "The quotation from Egrant can be used in other proceed- ings to limit access. There is dis-crimination because everyone in the Labour Party has access to it and nobody else." The Chief Justice once again said that he didn't see a reason to have the ministers testify because a comparison of written and what was said could be carried out instead, but Galea stood his ground. "I want a dec- laration from the ministers to the effect that they took it from Egrant." The government has this in- quiry and the Attorney General continues to defend him, said the lawyer. "We now have three ministers with access," he con- tinued. The court put the case off for 18 November, saying it would give a decree on the ministers' request not to testify, from chambers. Chief Justice 'cannot force' ministers to exhibit Egrant report