Cap. 16 Art. 165Persons who may be excused from the office of tutor.

The following persons are entitled to be exempted from accepting or continuing in the office of tutor:

(a) members of the House of Representatives;

(b) heads of public departments, and any other public officer having the direction of any particular branch of the public service;

(c) persons belonging to the armed forces of Malta, if on active service;

(d) persons who have attained the age of sixty years, or are suffering from a habitual infirmity, which incapacitates them from discharging the office of tutor without serious inconvenience;

(e) any person who is a father or a mother of five living children;

(f) persons who are already discharging a tutorial office;

(g) any person not being a relative of the minor, or being a distant relative, if there is in Malta a relative, or, as the case may be, a nearer relative competent to discharge the office of tutor, and not excused therefrom: Provided that where the incapacity or the ground of exemption of the relative or nearer relative ceases, the stranger or the distant relative, as the case may be, may claim to be relieved of the office.