S.L. 546.1 Art. 20URI structure and format.

(1) The implementing entity shall publish a standard and format for the management of a persistent identifier to be applied to all official records.

(2) The Uniform Resource Identifier shall be composed of three main parts, namely the indication that this is a record which has its legal authority from the Laws of Malta, a second part which identifies the official register and the third part which shall identify the individual record or a particular version of the same record according to the record version control mechanism described in regulation 21.