Vehicle Access Zones (Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 269 of 2008

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Vehicle Access Zones (Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

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 Infrastructure, Transport and Communications has,

after consultation with the Malta Transport Authority, made the

following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Vehicle Access Zones

(Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2008, and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Vehicle Access Zones (Control) Regulations,

2007, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1 st September, 2008.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, in the definition

“non-chargeable vehicles” for the words “charging zone” substitute the

words “Council locality”.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

follows>

(a) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following>

“(b) vehicles registered on and, or used as part of their

duty, by the Armed Forces of Malta, the Police Force, the

Civil Protection Department, the prison authorities, Local

Wardens and Malta Transport Authority Enforcement

Officers,”< and

(b) in paragraph (p) for the words “other vehicles that” there

shall be substituted the words “other vehicles, including vehicles

used to render medical or health care services, that”.

Regulation 9 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

follows>

(a) in paragraph (a) for the words “ between the hours of

1.30 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.” there shall be substituted the words

“during the following times and days of the week>-

Monday>

08. 00. to 09.30 hrs

30 to 16.30 hrs

- Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday>

08.00 to 09.30 hrs

13.00 to 16.00 hrs

- Thursday

08.00 to 09.30 hrs

14.30 to 16.30 hrs (until the 31 st December, 2008)

13.00 to 16.00 hrs (as from the 1 st January, 2009)

- Saturday>

08.00 to 09.30 hrs>

Provided that the Board may, due to exceptional

circumstances, approve other delivery times other than those

aforesaid.”<

(b) paragraph (f) shall be renumbered as paragraph (g)<

and

(c) immediately after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted

the following>

“(f) vehicles, including cranes, used in the construction

industry or for road excavation<”.

5. In sub-regulation (6) of regulation 10 of the principal Amends regulation

10 of the principal

regulations for the words “(f) to (h), (l) and (p)” there shall be substituted regulations.

the words “(f) to (h) and (l)”.

6. Immediately after regulation 13 of the principal regulations Adds new

regulation 14 to the

there shall be inserted the following new regulation>

principal

regulations.

“Parking bays

14. The Authority shall provide, and thereafter the

for residents.

Local Council shall cause to be maintained, within the Council

locality where there exists a charging zone, appropriate parking

bays for residents within that Council locality.”.