Correction of the Motor Vehicles Registration Tax Act, Cap. 368

L.N.217 of 2000

STATUE LAW REVISION ACT

(ACT NO. IX OF 1980)

Correction of the Motor Vehicles Registration Tax Act, Cap. 368

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 7(3) of the Statute

Law Revision Act, 1980, the Law Commission has made the following

correction:-

In the Motor Vehicles Registration Tax Act, Cap. 368, immediately

after article 23 there shall be inserted the following article:-

24. (1) A motor vehicle imported into Malta and

released from customs before the first January 1994 and to

which the provisions of article 6 (2) (a) applied and on or

after that date is released from customs and is sold or otherwise

transferred, there shall apply for such sale or transfer the

provisions of article 17 (3) as if that vehicle were a vehicle to

which the said paragraph of article 6 (2) (a) refers and such

reference shall be construed as a reference to any initial

registration fee and duty on documents which may have been

paid in respect of that motor vehicle when it was first licensed

in Malta.

(2) The Head of Department responsible for

licensing and testing of motor vehicles within the Ministry of

Transport and Communications shall be the Competent

Officer mentioned in this Act and shall collect the tax due in

tenns of this Act on behalf of the Comptroller of Customs

until such time as a public officer is designated as the

Competent Officer in accordance with this Act.".