Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

L.N. 216 of 2007

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2007

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

Regulation Ordinance and 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>-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles (Carriage

of Dangerous Goods by Road) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007, and

shall be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles (Carriage

of Dangerous Goods by Road) Regulations, 2003, hereinafter referred

to as “the principal regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

follows>

(a) in the definition “ADR”, for the words “1 st January

2005”, wherever they appear, there shall be substituted the words

“1 st January 2007”< and

(b) immediately after the definition “enforcement action”

there shall be inserted the following new definition>

“ “existing vehicle” means a vehicle which is intended

for the carriage of explosives or a vehicle which is intended

for the carriage of dangerous goods in a tank and which was

already registered with the Malta Transport Authority for that

purpose before the 1 st May, 2004.”.

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