The New Guard together with the AFM military band will leave city gate at 1000hrs and should take place in the forecourt (St Georges Square) of the Presidential Palace in Valletta at around 1015am. Once there a formal ceremony in which sentries providing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries. After the ceremony of the changing of the guard the AFM Military Band will then head back to City Gate together with the old guard.