Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

L.N. 194 of 2011

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 54 of the

Traffic Regulation Ordinance and by article 43 of the Authority for

Transport in Malta Act, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport

and Communications has, after consultation with the Authority for

Transport in Malta, made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Passenger Transport

Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Passenger Transport Services

Regulations, 2009 hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

Sub-regulation 7 of regulation 5 of the principal

regulations shall be deleted.

Immediately after regulation 120 of the principal

regulations there shall be added the following new regulation

(1) The Minister may, by an order in the Gazette,

exempt any person carrying out transport operations

only as an ancillary activity, from the application of

any or all provisions of these regulations and shall,

in granting such exemption impose on such person to

whom the exemption is granted any conditions which

the Minister, after consultation with the Authority,

considers appropriate.

(2) Any person who commits a breach of any of

the conditions imposed by the Minister in terms of sub-

regulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on

conviction, be liable to a fine (ammenda) of not more

than three thousand euro (€3,000).

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