S.L. 546.4 Art. 4The Register.

(1) There shall be established a Register, which shall contain therein the details of all addresses in Malta, and which shall be based on data derived from the Location Base Register in accordance with the First Schedule, which shall hold records containing the necessary information required to identify any type of land, sea or air parcel including geocoding and which shall be linked to the relevant geospatial record from the official base map of Malta, and the following subsidiary registers:

(a) the Buildings Register which shall hold records of all buildings together with their entry points;

(b) the Streets Register which shall hold records of all

*Not yet in force. †Not yet in force. streets which are publicly or privately-owned and which serve as thoroughfares or any other type of passageway and which are assigned a name by the Registrar;

(c) the Localities Register which shall hold records of all the localities, communities and sub-localities which are identified on the official base map;

(d) the Post Codes Register which shall hold records that represent defined physical areas as established from time to time by the postal services provider as mandated by the authority responsible for the regulation of communications to provide postal services in Malta;

(e) the Regions Register which shall hold the list of officially recognized geographical regions which represent a sub-division of Malta, as may be identified and included by the Registrar; and

(f) the Countries Register which shall hold records of countries and territories:

Provided that the Registrar, may from time to time, after the publication of a notice in the Gazette, establish the data elements and data types which are mandatory for each register, add new data elements and data types to the Register and subsidiary registers, and establish other subsidiary registers made up of the relevant data elements:

Provided further that data elements may not be populated with the required content as from initial implementation of the Register and subsidiary registers.

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(2) The subsidiary registers shall be an extension of the Location Base Register establishing the Address Register, and shall contain the data elements as provided under the First to the Eighth Schedules.

(3) The Registrar shall request, at his discretion, and receive from the entities concerned, without incurring any costs, the relevant and good quality data together with its metadata, in machine-readable format from the competent data sources. The entity concerned shall comply with this request within a reasonable time-frame as established by the Registrar.

(4) New address records or changes to existing address details may be created only by the processes as established by the Registrar.

*Not yet in force. (GEOSPATIAL) REGISTERS