 They wanted that the award would be incorporated on an official level.While the government accepted the need for a national award, they had been told that it was planning to expand on their work and establish its own award system.In 1975, the government kept its promise and introduced an updated and more extensive award system that was established through the Ġieħ ir-Repubblika Act, which was further consolidated in 1990 by the foundation of the National Order of Merit under the same Act.