25 tal-2009 - Regolamenti tal-2009 li jemendaw ir-Regolamenti dwar Vetturi bil-Mutur (Liċenzi tas-Sewqan)

L.N. 25 of 2009

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations,

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

Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 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

(Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations, 2009 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles (Driving

Licences) Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

For regulation 7 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following new regulation

Any holder of a European Union driving

“Exchange

of driving

licence or of an Australian driving licence issued by all

licences

Australian State and Territory licensing authorities, who

issued by

other States.

takes up normal residence in Malta, shall be entitled to

have his driving licence exchanged for an equivalent

Maltese licence.”.

3. For the Second Schedule to the principal regulations there

shall be substituted the following new Schedule

4. For the footnote to the Third Schedule to the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following

“Testing vehicles for categories B+E, C, C+E, C1, C1+E,

D, D+E, D1 and D1+E which are not in conformity with the

minimum criteria given above but which were in use on or

before the 28th June, 2008, may still be used until the 30th

September 2013. The requirements related to the load to be

carried by these vehicles shall come into force on the 30th

September, 2013.”.

5. Immediately after sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of

the Fourth Schedule to the principal regulations there shall be added

the following new sub-paragraph

“(iv) safe driving in road tunnels.”.

6. The Fifth Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 there shall be

substituted the following

“(a) The driving of a vehicle with manual

transmission shall be subject to the passing of a skills

and behaviour test taken on a vehicle with manual

transmission.

If an applicant takes the test of skills and behaviour

on a vehicle without a clutch pedal (or lever operated

manually for categories A and A1) this shall be recorded

on any licence issued on the basis of such a test. Licences

with this indication shall be valid only for driving vehicles

without a clutch pedal (or lever operated manually for

categories A or A1).

For the purposes of this paragraph -

“Vehicles with automatic transmission” means

a vehicle in which no clutch pedal (or lever operated

manually for categories A or A1) is present.”;

(b) in item (viii) of sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 2,

immediately after the words “on long slopes;” there shall be

inserted the word “tunnel;”;

(c) in item (viii) of sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 3,

immediately after the words “on long slopes;” there shall be

inserted the word “tunnel;”; and

(d) in item (viii) of sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 4,

immediately after the words “on long slopes;” there shall be

inserted the word “tunnel;”.

7. The Seventh Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) for Sub-code No. 10.02 under Code 10 there shall

be substituted the following

“10.02 Vehicles without a clutch pedal (or lever

operated manually for categories A or A1)”; and

(b) for Code No. 78 there shall be substituted the

following

“78 Valid only for vehicles without a clutch pedal

(or lever operated manually for categories A or A1)”.

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