Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations, 2011

L. N. 252 of 2011

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) (No 2) 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

(1) The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2011 and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles Regulations, 1994,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on the 3rd

July, 2011.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be Amends regulation

amended as follows

(a) for the definition “motor route bus” there shall be

substituted the following new definition

“ “motor route bus” means an M2 or M3 motor

vehicle which, by virtue of its type of construction and

equipment, is suitable for carrying passengers, and

is intended for that purpose and which is licensed to

operate a public passenger transport service in terms

of the Authority for Transport in Malta Act or any

regulation issued thereunder;”;

(b) immediately after the definition “owner” there shall

be inserted the following new definition

“ “passenger transport vehicle” means an M2 or

M3 motor vehicle licensed to be used for the carriage of

passengers for hire or reward;”;

(c) immediately after the definition “private car” there

shall be added the following new definition

“public passenger transport service” means the

regular passenger transport services of general economic

interest provided to the public on a non-discriminatory

and continuous basis;”; and

(d) the definition “scheduled” shall be deleted.

Regulation 56 of the principal regulations shall be

In regulation 59 of the principal regulations, the words

“and/or conductor” shall be deleted. .

Regulation 66 of the principal regulations shall be

In regulation 68 of the principal regulations the words

“motor route bus” shall be deleted.

Regulation 88 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) for the marginal note thereto there shall be

substituted the words “Prohibitory traffic markings”

(b) for the third and fourth paragraphs thereof there

shall be substituted the following

“Where a road is marked by any of the traffic

markings numbered (i) (a),(b), (c) and (d) under

paragraph (C) of Part IV of the Schedule to the Traffic

Signs and Carriageway Markings Regulations, 1969,

no motor vehicles other than a motor route bus or

other vehicle authorized by the Authority in terms

of regulation 69 of the Passenger Transport Services

Regulations, 2009 shall stop within the area defined by

such traffic markings and the kerb

Provided that this shall not apply to vehicles on

priority duty as described in regulation 83 or anything

done with the permission or at the direction of the

Police or a traffic warden or an authorized officer of the

Authority.”.

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 90 of the principal Amends regulation

regulations, for the words “by any public transport vehicle 90

(excluding self-drive vehicles), any karrozzin, any bicycle, any

motorcycle, any heavy goods vehicle” there shall be substituted

the words “by any motor route bus and any other passenger

transport vehicle, taxis and, where authorised, by karozzini, and by

motorcycles, pedal cycles”.

In regulation 99 of the principal regulations, the words Amends regulation

“motor route buses and” shall be deleted.

In regulation 101 of the principal regulations, for the Amends regulation

words “other similar heavy vehicles and motor route buses” there 101

shall be substituted the words “and other similar heavy vehicles”.

In regulation 114 of the principal regulations, the words

“motor route bus,” shall be deleted.

In paragraph (A) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 127

of the principal regulations, the words “Motor route buses ………..

60” shall be deleted.

For the title to Part VII of the principal regulations there

shall be substituted the following

“Motor Vehicles for Hire and Minibuses”.

Regulation 129 of the principal regulations shall be

deleted.

In the English text, in sub-regulation (2) of regulation

130 of the principal regulations, for the words “or motor route bus”

there shall be substituted the words “or motor minibus”.

Regulation 131 of the principal regulations shall be

deleted.

Paragraph (g) of regulation 134 of the principal

regulations shall be deleted.

Part IX of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Part X of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Part XI of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Part XII of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

Deletes Part XII of the

principal regulations.

The First Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

Deletes the First

Schedule to the

deleted.

principal regulations.

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