Trailers and Other Encumbering Objects in the locality of Isla

L.C.B.L. 4/12/2017

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Trailers and Other Encumbering Objects in the locality of Isla

(Isla Local Council) Bye-Laws, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 34, 35(8) and 60

of the Local Councils Act, the Isla 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 Isla (Isla Local Council) Bye-

Laws, 2017.

In these Bye-Laws, unless the context otherwise requires:-

Definitions.

"the Act" means the Local Councils Act;

"The Council" means the Isla Local Council;

"encumbering object" means any object which although may not

necessary be considered as waste, causes obstruction or nuisance or

inconvenience in any part of the locality or any other object 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 Isla 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 Restrictions on

any encumbering object, including any skip which is not destined for trailers

other

domestic use, and no person shall leave or park, whether for a encumbering

objects.

temporary period or otherwise, or leave unattended any trailer, 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 public land, with

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 Isla has to have a means of

identification which leads to the person responsible for the same trailer

or encumbering object.

These Bye-Laws shall not be applicable to a site or sites

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

long as conditions imposed are observed.

5.1 Sites identified by the Local Council can only be used after

an application has been filed to the Local Council and the same Local

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 Maltese

Laws. Any other use shall be subject to these Bye-Laws.

Any person who 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 fine

(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

other 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