Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2004

L.N. 386 of 2004

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2004

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

Regulation Ordinance, and by article 32 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) These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles

(Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2004 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Motor Vehicle Regulations, 1994, hereinafter

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into effect on the 13th

August, 2004.

In regulation 130 of the principal regulations, immediately

after sub-regulation (6) thereof, there shall be added the following new

sub-regulation>

“(7) It shall be an offence for any person to hire to any other

person a motor vehicle for the purpose of such vehicle being driven

by a hirer or any other person for a short term hire, unless such

motor vehicle is registered with the Authority as a self-drive motor

vehicle and carries a registration mark, the third letter of which is

the letter K.

For the purpose of this sub-regulation, the words “for a short

term hire” mean a non-renewable period not exceeding in total

ninety days.”.

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