Motor Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act

L.N. 15 of 2013

MOTOR VEHICLES REGISTRATION AND LICENSING ACT

(CAP. 368)

Motor Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act

(Amendment of the Second Schedule) Rules, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 20 of the Motor

Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act, the Minister for

Infrastructure, Transport and Communications has, in concurrence

with the Minister of Finance, the Economy and Investment, made the

following rules:-

(1) The title of these rules is the Motor Vehicles Citation and

Registration and Licensing Act (Amendment of the Second Schedule) commencement.

Rules, 2013 and these rules shall be read and construed as one with

the Second Schedule to the Motor Vehicles Registration and Cap. 368.

Licensing Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Second Schedule".

(2) Rule 2 shall come into force on the 1st June, 2013.

(3) Rule 3(1) shall be deemed to have come into force on the

29th November, 2012.

Category A in the Second Schedule shall be amended as Amends the

Second

follows

Schedule.

(a)

the second column in the table under the heading

"Petrol engined" shall be substituted by the following

"

Latest European standard

CO 2 x RV x 0.07%

CO 2 x RV x 0.09%

CO 2 x RV x 0.10%

CO 2 x RV x 0.11%

CO 2 x RV x 0.16%

CO 2 x RV x 0.18%

CO 2 x RV x 0.21%

CO 2 x RV x 0.23%

";

(b) the second column in the table under the heading

"Diesel-engined with particulate matter of 0g/km up to and

including 0.005g/km" shall be substituted by the following

"

Latest European standard

CO 2 x RV x 0.07%

CO 2 x RV x 0.09%

CO 2 x RV x 0.10%

CO 2 x RV x 0.11%

CO 2 x RV x 0.16%

CO 2 x RV x 0.18%

CO 2 x RV x 0.21%

CO 2 x RV x 0.23%

"; and

(c) in the table showing the Euro standards in respect of

M1 vehicles, the words "Euro 5" in the last column shall be

substituted by the words "Euro 5 and Euro 6", and the words

"from 2011" shall be substituted by the words "2011 onwards".

(1) The registration tax rates which shall be chargeable

for the registration of motor vehicles to which rule 2 refers shall be

2013. those shown in the said rule 2.

(2) With effect from the date of publication of these rules, the

payment of the difference in the registration tax as established in rule

2 and that which was in force prior to entry into force of rule 2, shall

be deferred to the 1st June, 2013, and the registration of motor

vehicles, as referred to in sub-rule (1) may, subject to the payment of

the rates as provided in rule 2, take place notwithstanding that the

said difference in rates is not paid on registration. On the coming into

force of rule 2 the said difference remaining unpaid shall be

considered as condoned.

(3) Where the registration of motor vehicles to which rule 2

refers has been effected after the 29th November, 2012, and the

registration tax as established in the Second Schedule has been paid,

then on the 1st June, 2013, in the event that these rules are not

revoked prior to such date, the Authority for Transport in Malta shall

refund to the person effecting such payment the payment made in

excess of the tax rates as established under rule 2.

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