Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

L.N. 212 of 2009

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

MALTA TRANSPORT AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 332)

Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2009

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:-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles Title.

(Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2009, 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 L.N. 211 of 2003.

regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) for the definition

“ADR”, there shall be

substituted the following

“ “ADR” means the European Agreement

concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous

Goods by Road, concluded at Geneva on the 30th

September 1957, as amended;”;

(b) for the definition “State Party” there shall be

substituted the following

“ “State Party” means a State which is Party to the

ADR;”;

(c) for the definition “vehicle” there shall be

substituted the following

“ “vehicle” means any motor vehicle which is

intended for use on the road, having at least four wheels

and a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h, and

any trailer, with the exception of vehicles which run on

rails, mobile machinery and agricultural and forestry

tractors that do not travel at a speed exceeding 40 km/h

when transporting dangerous goods.”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3 of the principal

regulations, for the words “Annex B to the ADR shall not” there

shall be substituted the words “Annex B to the ADR, as applicable

with effect from the 1st January, 2009, shall not”.

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 13 of the principal

regulations, for the words “allow such vehicles to enter Malta or

the Community” there shall be substituted the words “allow such

vehicles to enter or leave Malta”.

In the Maltese text of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 17

of the principal regulations, for the words “Parti li tkun Stat” there

shall be substituted the words “Stat li jkun Parti”.

In the Maltese text of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 25

of the principal regulations, for the words “Parti li tkun Stat ieħor”

there shall be substituted the words “Stat li jkun Parti ieħor”.

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