Objects) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

L.N. 405 of 2003

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Traffic Regulation (Clamping and Removal of Encumbering

Objects) (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 54 of the Traffic

Regulation Ordinance, and by article 27 of the Malta Transport Authority

Act, the Minister for Transport and Communications has, after

consultation with the Malta Transport Authority, made the following

regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Traffic Regulation Title and

commencement.

(Clamping and Removal of Encumbering Objects) (Amendment)

Regulations, and they shall be read and construed as one with the Traffic

L.N. 94 of 1997.

Regulation (Clamping and Removal of Encumbering Objects)

Regulations Regulation, 1997, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 1st

January, 2004.

The provision in regulation 3 of the principal regulations Amends regulation

3 of the principal

shall be renumbered as sub-regulation (1) thereof and immediately after regulations.

sub-regulation (1) as renumbered there shall be added the following

new sub-regulation>-

“(2) The Commissioner or the Council may remove any

vehicle whose road licence has not been paid for any current year,

whenever the renewal of such licence is overdue by more than

three months>

Provided that such vehicle shall not be returned to its owner

unless and until the road licence of the said vehicle is paid in

addition to the fee levied by the Commissioner or the Council as

stipulated in sub-regulations 9(b) and (c) of these Regulations>

Provided further that the provisions contained in these

regulations applicable to encumbering objects shall also apply to

any such vehicle as is referred to in this sub-regulation.”.

For the proviso to sub-regulation (3) of regulation 8A of the

principal regulations there shall be substituted the following>

“Provided that without prejudice to the right of the

Commissioner or the Council to dispose of the derelict vehicle as

aforesaid, the Commissioner or the Council shall have the right to

impose a fee of not more than Lm500.”.

Immediately after paragraph (c) of regulation 9 of the principal

regulations there shall be included the following new paragraph>

“(d) for the disposal of derelict vehicles.........Lm500”.

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