Objects) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

L.N. 291 of 2004

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Traffic Regulation (Clamping and Removal of Encumbering

Objects) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004

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 Urban Development and Roads has,

after consultation with the Malta Transport Authority, made the

following regulations>–

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

(Clamping and Removal of Encumbering Objects) (Amendment) commencement.

Regulations, 2004 and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Traffic Regulation (Clamping and Removal of Encumbering

Objects) Regulations, 1997, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 94 of 1997.

regulations”.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 14th

May, 2004.

For sub-regulation (2) of regulation 3 of the principal Amends regulation

3 of the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following>–

regulations.

“(2) The Commissioner or the Council may clamp or

remove any vehicle whenever the road licence as affixed to the

windscreen of such vehicle has expired by three months to be

reckoned from the last day of the month in the calendar year

shown or indicated on the road licence affixed to the windscreen<

Provided that the Commissioner or the Council may also

clamp or remove any vehicle whenever a road licence is not

affixed to the windscreen of such vehicle<

Provided further that such vehicle shall not be returned to

its owner unless and until the road licence of the said vehicle

together with the administrative fee payable to the Authority

are paid in addition to the fee levied by the Commissioner or

the Council as laid down in sub-regulation (9) (a) (b) and (c) of

these regulations<

Provided further that the provisions of these regulations

applicable to encumbering objects shall also apply to any vehicle

as is referred to in this sub-regulation.”.

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