Polling (Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2011

L.N. 196 of 2011

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Polling (Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2011

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

Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport

and Communications, after consultation with the Authority for

Transport in Malta, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Polling

(Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2011.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 28th

May, 2011.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires:-

“Chief Electoral Commissioner” includes any officer of

the Electoral Commissioner’s Office duly authorised by the

Chief Electoral Commissioner to act on his behalf;

“Commissioner of Police” include any officer of the

Malta Police Force duly authorised by the Commissioner of

Police to act on his behalf;

“poll” means the poll to be held on the 28th May, 2011

in connection with the Referendum;

“polling place” means a place where the poll is to be

held and which is listed in the Schedule published by the

Chief Electoral Commissioner in the Gazette on the 4th

April, 2011;

“vehicle” means any vehicle, whether propelled by

mechanical power or otherwise, and any animal-drawn

vehicle.

Unless authorised by the Commissioner of Police or by

the Chief Electoral Commissioner, no vehicle shall have access

to any street leading to the Counting Hall, at Valletta, or to any

polling place and no vehicle shall go beyond a prohibitory sign

with the words “TGĦADDIX - NO ENTRY” or bypass any barrier

or road block wherever put up by the Police at any spot in the

vicinity of the said Counting Hall or places as from 5.00 a.m. on

Saturday 28th May, 2011 until -

(a) the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, at Valletta, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29th May, 2011, in the case

of any polling place.

The transit of vehicles along Mediterranean Street and Temporary prohibition

North Street, Valletta will be suspended on the 28th May, 2011 of transit.

from 9.00 p.m. until required. Vehicles carrying ballot boxes duly

authorised by the Electoral Commission, as well as other vehicles

carrying Assistant Electoral Commissioners and other officials of

the Electoral Commission, as well as persons duly authorised by

the Chief Electoral Commissioner, will be permitted to pass.

No pedestrian shall, unless in possession of a permit Restriction on

issued to him by the Chief Electoral Commissioner or unless

otherwise authorised by the said Commissioner or by the

Commissioner of Police, bypass or proceed beyond a prohibitory

sign with the words “TGĦADDIX - NO ENTRY”, a barrier or a

road block wherever put up by the Police at any spot in the vicinity

of the Counting Hall, Valletta, or of any polling place as from 5.00

a.m. on Saturday, 28th May, 2011 until -

(a) the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, at Valletta, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29th May, 2011, in the case

of any polling place

so however that the restriction indicated in paragraph (b) shall not

apply to persons in possession of the voting document entitling

them to vote at that particular polling place and while such persons

are on their way to that polling place to cast their vote or are

returning there after having cast their vote.

No vehicle shall be parked in the vicinity of the Prohibition of parking

approaches to the Counting Hall, at Valletta, or of any polling of vehicles.

place beyond a prohibitory sign with the words ‘TGĦADDIX - NO

ENTRY”, a barrier or road block wherever put up by the Police at

any spot in the vicinity of the said Counting Hall or polling places

from 5.00 a.m. on Saturday 28th May, 2011 until -

(a) the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, at Valletta, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29th May, 2011, in the case

of any polling place.

Saving the provisions of subsection (2) of section 64

of the General Elections Act, the Commissioner of Police may

prohibit any person from loitering in the vicinity of the approaches

to the Counting Hall, at Valletta, or of any polling place at any

point beyond a prohibitory sign with the words “TGĦADDIX - NO

ENTRY”, a barrier or road block wherever put up by the Police at

any spot in the vicinity of the said Counting Hall or polling places

as from 5.00 a.m. on Saturday, 28th May, 2011 until -

(a) the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, at Valletta, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29th May, 2011, in the case

of any polling place.

These regulations shall expire on the publication of the

final result of the poll, but such expiration shall not affect anything

done or omitted to be done, or any proceedings taken or to be taken

thereunder.

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