Birżebbuġa (Birżebbuġa Local Council) Bye-Laws, 2018

L.C.B.L. 15/12/2018

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Trailers and other Encumbering Objects in the Locality of

Birżebbuġa (Birżebbuġa Local Council) Bye-Laws, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 34, 35(8) and

60 of the Local Councils Act, the Birżebbuġa Local Council has made

the following Bye-Laws:-

The title of these Bye-Laws is Trailers and other Citation.

Encumbering Objects in the Locality of Birżebbuga (Birżebbuġa Local

Council) Bye-Laws, 2018.

In these Bye-Laws unless the context otherwise requires

Interpretation.

"the Act" means the Local Councils Act;

"Council" means the Birżebbuġa Local Council;

"encumbering object" means any object which although

may not necessary be considered as waste, causes obstruction or

inconvenience on any part of the locality or any other object of a

size or quantity or accumulation, as taken by itself, causes a

nuisance, or which may lead to deterioration or defacement of a

public place;

"locality" means the locality of Birżebbuġa as defined in

the Act;

"trailer" means any vehicle without mechanical power of its

own designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and intended for

the purpose of the carriage of boats and other sea craft or for the

conveyance of goods.

1. No person shall in any part of the locality, place or leave a Restrictions on

trailer or any other encumbering object, including any skip which is trailers

other

not destined for domestic use, and no person shall, whether for a encumbering

objects.

temporary period or otherwise, leave unattended any trailer or park it,

loaded or not in any part of the locality save in an area that is

designated by the Council as a site for the parking of trailers or on

private land, without the prior authorisation of the Council.

3.2. No part of these Bye-Laws shall be construed as restricting

the transit of trailers within the locality.

3.3. Notwithstanding the provisions of these Bye-Laws, any

person may place any trailer in any part of the locality to unload

therefrom any boat or other sea-craft

Provided that such trailer shall be removed immediately

once the objects that would be conveyed thereon would be removed.

Any trailer or encumbering object which passes through or

is parked within the locality of Birżebbuġa has to have a means of

clear identification which leads to the person responsible for the same

trailer or encumbering object.

1. These Bye-Laws may not be applicable to a site or sites

identified and approved by the Council for this purpose and as long as

conditions imposed by the Council are observed.

5.2. Sites identified by the Council can only be used after an

application has been filed to the Council and the same Council

approves such application.

Sites identified as fishermen’s and boat’s zone should only

be used as granted in relative permits and according to the provisions

of Maltese laws and any other use shall be subject to these Bye-Laws.

Any person who in one way or another acts in

contravention of any provision of these Bye-Laws, shall on conviction

be liable to a fine (ammenda) of seventy euro (€70) for such

contravention together with a further ammenda of ten euro (€10) for

each day during which such contravention of these Bye-Laws would

have ensued.

The penalty referred to in Bye-Law 4 shall be without

prejudice to any right of action which the Council or any other

authority may take to remove, deposit, or dispose of any trailer or any

encumbering object or any accessory thereto in terms of the provisions

of the Clamping and Removal of Motor Vehicles and Encumbering

Objects Regulations, or any other law, and without prejudice to any

other penalty or fine (ammenda) which may be imposed under any

other law.

€0.18