Motor Tractors (Amendment) Regulations 2003

L.N. 82 of 2003

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP 65)

Motor Tractors (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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

Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Transport and Communications,

after consultation with the Malta Transport Authority, has made the

following the regulations>-

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Motor Tractors

(Amendment) Regulations, 2003 and these shall be read and construed

as one with the Motor Tractors Regulations, 1979, hereinafter referred

to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1 st March, 2003

Immediately after the definition of “container” in regulation

2 of the principal regulations there shall be inserted the following new

definition>

““groupage consignment” means a consolidated consignment

of goods carried on any trailer, heavy commercial vehicle or any

other commercial vehicle loaded with a container and destined for

more than one consignee<”.

Regulation 13 of the principal regulation shall be renumbered

as sub-regulation (1) thereof, and immediately thereafter there shall be

added the following new sub-regulation>

Unloading of

“(2) No person shall unload a groupage consignment

Groupage

consignments except at such place and during such time as shall be

established by the Commissioner.”

Regulation 21 of the principal regulations shall be renumbered

as sub-regulation 1 (1) thereof, and immediately after there shall be

inserted the new following sub-regulation

“(2) The Hal Far Groupage Complex shall be an authorized

place for the unloading of groupage consignments.”

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