Regulations, 2011

L.N. 125 of 2011

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Market (Amendment)

Regulations, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sub-article (1) of

article 28 of the Malta Resources Authority Act, the Minister for

Resources and Rural Affairs, after consultation with the Malta

Resources Authority has made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Liquefied Petroleum

Gas Market (Amendment) Regulations, 2011, and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Market Regulations, 2008 hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in the definition “primary storage facility of LPG”,

for the words “to store LPG;” there shall be substituted the

words ““to store LPG:”” and immediately thereafter there

shall be added the following proviso

“Provided that such an authorised facility wherein

LPG is stored in bulk shall be onshore and fixed, and

for the purposes of this definition “fixed” shall mean a

permanently fixed structure underground or aboveground

at a defined site;”;

Provided further that the Authority may, when

reasonably necessary, authorize primary storage facilities

of LPG which are not onshore and, or fixed;”; and

(b) for the definition “recipient” shall be substituted by

the following

““recipient” shall have the same meaning as it has

under the Services (Internal Market) Act, 2009;”.

In subregulation (1) of regulation 9 of the principal

regulations the words “aforesaid communication” these shall

be substituted by the words “communication as aforesaid in

subregulation (4) of regulation 8”.

Immediately after the Second Schedule to the principal

regulations there shall be added the following new Schedule

“THIRD SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

Fee due to the Authority for approval as a

competent person ………………………………………….. €35”.

€0.18