Marika Farrugia, executive secretary Office of the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations, Floriana
PBS benefits to voluntary organisations
I refer to Robert Musumeci's opinion piece Our Dear Siġġiewi Home (January 12). The Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations had often drawn attention to the fact that to carry out public collections a voluntary organisation must either be enrolled with the commissioner or have a police licence.
Mr Musumeci is right in holding that Id-Dar tal-Providenza was in line with the law when it obtained a police licence to collect funds. But he is wrong in his deduction that "The chairman of PBS is correct to express her tacit consent because this organisation was covered with a police permit".
This is because, as a state entity, the PBS is subject to article 4 of the Voluntary Organisations Act which restricts its discretion in the allotment of benefits to voluntary organisations to enrolled organisations only.
Id-Dar tal-Providenza is not so enrolled. So much is recognised in article 19 of the PBS's own regulations covering TVM fund-raising programmes for philanthropic causes, which, recognising this legal obligation, states that applicants must be registered with the Commissioner for Voluntary Organisations.
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Pule' Carmel
Jan 13th 2010, 19:02
In this week's Lehen is-Sewwa Mgr Calleja referred to a Maltese illegal stowaway to Australia who STOLE the Church's money as " he did not steal the money but he BORROWED it, " as he returned it back a hunfred fold.
The wife of a president and the whole school broke the law for the sake of getting fined by the headmistress where alll the FINES, not Donations, went to to charity
I time of war a man is by,law,allowed to kill as much as he likes and he is made a hero to defend the country but if he kills in peacetime to defend himself he is questioned and need lawyers and a lot of capital and would probably end up serving a spell inprision.
For some the law states that prison is not a closed cell in Corradino but a separation from society in one of the ex villas that housed the doctors to a mental asylum, There were ex policemembers who went to a Corradino cell where the man suffered continuous awaking by knocks on the cell door to stop him from sleeping.
If I am hungry, do I need to see what the lawstates about it??