Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2003

L.N. 407 of 2003

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP 332)

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2003

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

Regulation Ordinance and article 17 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 Motor Vehicles Title and

commencement.

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2003, and shall be read and

construed as one with the Motor Vehicles Regulations, 1994, L.N. 128 of 1994.

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 23rd

December, 2003.

For regulation 239 of the principal regulations there shall be Amends

regulation 239

substituted the following>

of the principal

regulations.

239. (1) A stationary taxicar may only be hired from

a taxi-stand as provided in the provisions of this Part.

(2) A taxicar may ply for hire, provided that it shall

not offer its services or accept a hire from any person within

a radius of 50 metres from a taxi-stand.

(3) The driver of a taxicar, while standing or plying

for hire, shall not call or otherwise importune any person to

hire such taxicar and shall not make use of the services of

any other person for such purpose.

(4) The driver of a taxicar who has agreed or has been

hired to be in attendance with the taxicar at an appointed

place and time, shall attend with such taxicar at such

appointed time and place.

(5) The driver of a taxicar when asked to drive to any

particular destination shall, subject to any directions given

by the hirer, proceed to that destination by the most

expeditious route.

(6) The driver of a taxicar which is on hire, while the

hiring continues, shall wait with the vehicle at such places

and for such time as the hirer may lawfully direct.”.

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