Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12)
Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 763
763. (1) In order to determine the court to which an appeal
from a judgment of the Court of Magistrates (Gozo) may be
brought in cases where the value may only be determined by a
valuation of experts, such valuation shall be made in the manner
provided in the last preceding article, in pursuance of an order of
the said Court of Magistrates upon a demand, which may be even
verbal, of both parties or one of them, within the time of six
working days from the day of the judgment.
(2) The report shall be sworn by the expert in the presence of
the registrar, and inserted in the record.
(3) The demand for the valuation may also be made during the
hearing of the cause.
(4) The default of a valuation made under sub-article (1) within
the period therein prescribed shall not be a cause of the nullity of
the appeal if, upon a valuation made in pursuance of an order of the
court before whom the appeal has been brought, it results that the
matter of the claim is, by reason of its value, within the appellate
jurisdiction of that court.
Valuation of expert
appointed by
parties.
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