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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2018 News 4 MEDICINAL CANNABIS PRODUCTION MATTHEW VELLA PROPERTY sellers and land- lords must get their energy use certifications in order if they are to keep on advertising their properties. As from 1 March 2018, prop- erty placed on the market for sale or rent and adver- tised must display its 'energy use' within the advert text. This means that all property owners should have an Energy Per- formance Certificate (EPC) in hand prior to placing their property on the market for sale or even for rent. An EPC is similar to a household electrical appliance energy label. The EPC has scale bars showing the energy rating of a building and its carbon emissions, with zero being the most energy ef- ficient and the other extreme being the least efficient. The EPC delivers an energy rating for properties which although part of Maltese law since 2009, has never been properly enforced. Now all properties advertised for sale and rent on newspapers, maga- zines, and brochures must con- tain the specific energy use. The EPC regulates the mini- mum energy performance re- quirements in buildings. It gives owners, prospective buyers, or tenants the ability to find out how energy-efficient their home is, what they can do to make it perform better and save money, as well as compare a property's energy performance with other properties they are considering to build, buy or rent. Energy use is found in the EPC issued by a registered EPB as- sessor. To be valid, the EPC has to be obtained from an assessor and registered with the Build- ing Regulation Office before being issued to the person who commissions it. A person or agent acting on behalf of anyone who offers for sale or letting a building, must also show the EPC or a copy to the prospective buyer and ten- ant and hand it over to them before the date of entering the promise of sale or rent agreement. This shall be based on the design rating of the building if the building is not yet constructed and fin- ished, or the asset rat- ing if the building is al- ready constructed and finished. Whether the prop- erty is already built, or still on plan, an EPC is required by law to be clearly visible and made available to any individual en- quiring about a property at the point of advertising. The two types of EPCs are as- set EPCs – prepared for a fin- ished property – and design EPCs, which includes proper- ties that are unfinished and still on plan. Once an EPC is registered, it will be valid for 10 years. Energy use must be advertised with all property listings 1691 Bann for Curators, Republic of Malta To the Marshal of the Courts It is hereby notified that by a decree dated the 24th of October, 2017, the First Hall of the Civil Court, following the request of Ann Jenkins (ID 0045261A) ordered that deputy curators be selected to represent the vacant inheritance of Rosina Scerri, in the records of the Schedule of Deposit and Concurrent Redemption of Ground Rent number 1738/2017, in the names Ann Jenkins (ID 0045261A) vs Deputy Curators and in the other relative and subsequent acts. By a Schedule of Deposit and Concurrent Redemption of Ground Rent, filed on the 23rd of October, 2017, in the First Hall of the Civil Court, in the names Ann Jenkins, a pensioner, wife of David Brian Jenkins from him legally separated, a daughter of Reginald Percy Ward and of Anne née Brookes, born in Smethwick, United Kingdom, on the 23rd September, 1939, and residing at St Paul's Bay, Malta, and holder of Maltese identity card number 0045261A vs Deputy Curators to represent the vacant inheritance of Rosina Scerri, That the interpellant Ann Jenkins (ID 0045261A) acquired the apartment described in the Schedule of Deposit and Concurrent Redemption of Ground Rent; That the aforementioned apartment is the ordinary residence of the interpellant; That the said apartment is subject to an annual and perpetual non-revisable ground rent, amount specified in the same Schedule of Deposit and Concurrent Redemption of Ground Rent, payable to Rosina Scerri or her successors in title; That the successors in title of Rosina Scerri are unknown and the interpellant would like to avail herself of the faculty contemplated in Article 1501 of the Civil Code (Chap. 16 of the Laws of Malta) and redeem this same ground rent in terms of the cited law by depositing the sum of €372.60 which represents the value of the said ground rent capitalized at 5% in order to be freely withdrawn by the deputy curators appointed to represent the vacant inheritance of Rosina Scerri, after the due receipt is left according to law. Interpellant: Ann Jenkins (ID 0045261A), No. 31, Trafalgar, Flat 6, Triq l- Imrejkba, St Paul's Bay Services: Deputy Curators, Superior Courts, Valletta Director of the Public Registry, Valletta You are hereby ordered to affix an official copy of this Bann at the entrance of this Superior Court and to summon whosoever wishes to be nominated as a curator to present himself/herself in this Registry within six days and make known his/her interest through a declaratory note. You are also ordered to inform each one that in default, this Court will proceed to nominate an official curator. And after execution, or upon your meeting with any obstacle in the execution hereof, you shall forthwith report to this Court. Given by the aforementioned Superior Court and witnessed by the Hon. Madam Justice Miriam Hayman, LLD, Doctor of Laws. This 24th of October, 2017 Registry of the Superior Courts, today Monday, 6th November, 2017 ADV. DR FRANK-LUKE M. 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