Regulations, 2006

L.N. 45 of 2006

UTILITIES AND SERVICES

(REGULATION OF CERTAIN WORKS) ACT

(CAP. 81)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Right of Way for Utilities and Services (Fees) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2006

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 11 of the Utilities

and Services (Regulation of Certain Works) Act, 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,

and in agreement with the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, made

the following regulations>-

The title of these regulations is the Right of Way for Utilities Title.

and Services (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006 and they shall be

read and construed as one with the Right of Way for Utilities and Services

(Fees) Regulations, 2005 hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 94 of 2005.

regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends regulation

2 of the principal

follows>

regulations.

(a) immediately after the definition “locality” there shall

be added the following new definition>

“ “national operator” means any person or undertaking,

other than the Authority, who has in place any apparatus in,

on or over roads in a minimum of fifty different localities

within Malta<”< and

(b) for the definition “operator” there shall be substituted

the following>

“ “operator” means any person or undertaking, apart from

the Authority, who is the owner of apparatus which is installed

in, on or over any road<”.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

(a) in sub-regulation (1), for the words “Any operator” there

shall be substituted the words “Any national operator”<

(b) sub-regulations (3), (4), (5) and (6) shall be renumbered

as sub-regulations (4), (5), (6) and (7) thereof respectively< and

(c) immediately after sub-regulation (2) there shall be added

the following new sub-regulation (3)>

“(3) An operator who does not qualify as a national

operator shall pay to the Authority, or to any person or body

of persons to whom the Authority may delegate in writing

specific functions, an annual fee calculated at the rates

published from time to time by the Authority by means of a

notice in the Gazette.”.

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