S.L. 573.14 Art. 4Application by an owner. 

(1) Any person may apply to the Authority to acquire a residual site with a valid title:

Provided that an application shall not be considered by the Authority unless the applicant is the owner with a valid legal title of the adjacent site, saving cases as explained in sub-regulations (4) and (5), where the application may be submitted by one (1) person with the consent of all the owners.

(2) Where the applicant has a title of perpetual utile dominium on the adjacent site, the Authority shall transfer the residual site free and unencumbered.

(3) Where the applicant has a title of temporary utile on the adjacent site, where the owner is the Government, the dominium Authority shall transfer the residual site by title of temporary emphyteusis which expires on the same date as the temporary emphyteusis of the adjacent site.

(4) In cases where occupation of a residual site already exists on multiple levels the Authority shall transfer them pro indiviso, by separate titles, following an appropriate distribution exercise according to the relative titles of ownership.

(5) In the case of multiple occupations of a residual site pro indiviso, such as the common parts of a condominium, the Authority shall transfer the residual site pro indiviso, and the resulting costs shall be apportioned among the eligible applicants, according to the corresponding titles of ownership.

(6) All applications shall be subject to an initial and non-refundable submission fee of one thousand euro (€1,000). In the case of multiple occupations as established in sub-regulations (4) and (5), the right of submission shall be increased by five hundred euro (€500) for each relative ownership fee.