Identita
Applies the ruleThe Maltese agency that issues identity documents and residence permits and runs the public registry. Its frequently asked questions pages describe, route by route, what it will accept and what it requires: forms, document lists, insurance minimums, fees and renewal lengths. It is the body that decides a residence application, so what it says about its own practice is primary about that practice.
The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.
identita.gov.mtCannot be cited for
It must not be cited for the law. Its pages state requirements that no instrument read for this corpus contains - that economic self-sufficiency applications are accepted only from beneficiaries of a residence investment or tax programme, that health insurance must cover at least 100,000 euro, that renewals are currently issued for two years - and those are administrative practice rather than enacted rules, which means they can change without any Legal Notice and without notice to anyone. The pages are undated and carry no version, so a reading is evidence of what the site said on the day it was read and nothing more. Where the agency and an instrument agree, cite the instrument; where they differ, the difference is the fact and both have to be quoted.
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