Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

L.N. 104 of 2004

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

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 regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles

(Amendment) Regulations, 2004 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Motor Vehicles Regulations, 1994, hereinafter

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st

March, 2004.

In the principal regulations for the words “police officer”

wherever they appear there shall be substituted the words “police

officer or local warden” respectively.

Regulation 67 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows>

(a) in sub-regulation (1) thereof for the words “by any

person having reasonable grounds” there shall be substituted

the words “by a Police officer, a local warden or by any person,

having reasonable grounds”<

(b) for sub-regulation (2) of the principal regulations

there shall be substituted the following>-

“(2) Saving the provisions of the other sub-

regulations hereunder of this regulation, where any case

to which sub-regulation (1) of this regulation applies

consists in an accident fitting the description in the Second

Schedule hereto, but not involving personal injury or

damage to public property, the persons involved in the

accident shall take steps to ensure the immediate removal

of anything which may be obstructing the free course of

traffic and immediately thereafter exchange such

information as is required by these regulations and give

the relevant information on the circumstances of the

incident on such appropriate forms supplied by the driver’s

or owner’s insurers, which form shall be delivered to the

respective insurers by not later than two working days

following the date of the accident.”<

(c) sub-regulation (3) shall be renumbered as sub-

regulation (6) and sub-regulation (4) and (5) shall be deleted<

(d) immediately after sub-regulation (2) there shall be

inserted the following new sub-regulations>-

“(3) Saving the other provisions of the sub-

regulations hereunder of this regulation, where any case

to which sub regulation (1) of this regulation applies

consists in an accident which does not fit the description

in the Second Schedule hereto, but not involving personal

injury or damage to public property, and the persons

involved agree on the circumstances of the accident then,

the persons involved in the accident shall exchange such

information as is required by these regulations and give

the relevant information on the circumstances of the

incident on such appropriate forms supplied by the driver’s

or owner’s insurers, which form shall be delivered to the

respective insurers by not later than two working days

following the date of the accident, and they shall take steps

to ensure the immediate removal of anything which may

be obstructing the free course of traffic immediately

thereafter.

(4) Saving the provisions of the other sub-

regulations of this regulation, where any case to which sub

regulation (1) of this regulation applies consists in an

accident which does not fit the description in the Second

Schedule hereto, but not involving personal injury or

damage to public property, and the persons involved do

not agree on the circumstances of the accident then, the

persons involved in the accident shall immediately notify

the local warden to whom they shall give such information

as is required by these regulations.

(5) Saving the provisions of the other sub-

regulations of this regulation, where any case to which sub

regulation (1) of this regulation applies consists in an

accident which involves personal injury or damage to

public property, the persons involved in the accident shall

immediately notify the local warden and, or the Police, to

whom they shall give such information as is required by

this regulation.”.

For regulation 124 of the principal regulations there shall

be substituted the following>-

124. (1) Every person driving or having charge of

given by the

a motor vehicle shall at all times immediately comply with

any order, indication or signal given or made by the Police

or a local warden for the purpose of regulating traffic or

for any other purpose in the exercise of their duty.

(2) Any person who untruthfully gives to any

Police Officer or Local Warden in the exercise of their

duty, his name, surname, identity card number, address

and other particulars and, or document that may be lawfully

required shall be guilty of a contravention.”.

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