Vehicle Access Zones (Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 430 of 2013

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Vehicle Access Zones (Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

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 Transport and Infrastructure has, after

consultation with the Authority for Transport in Malta, made the

following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Vehicle Access Citation and

Zones (Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these commencement.

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Vehicle S.L.65.31

Access Zones (Control) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force

on the 1st December, 2013.

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 9 of the Amends

regulation 9 of

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(a) vehicles used for the delivery or selling of goods

provided that the exemption shall only apply if those vehicles

access the charging zone during the following times and days of

the week

Monday

08. 00 to 09.30 hrs

30 to 16.30 hrs

Tuesday to Friday

08.00 to 09.30 hrs

13.00 to 16.00 hrs

The Board may, due to exceptional circumstances, approve

other delivery times other than those aforesaid;".

3. In the First Schedule to the principal regulations, for the

words "Prescribed periods: Monday to Friday from 08.00 to 18.00

Saturday from 08.00 to 13.00" there shall be substituted the words

"Prescribed periods: Monday to Friday from 08.00 to 18.00".

4. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

for the words "Controlled Vehicle Access Zone

Sign" there shall be substituted the words "Controlled Vehicle

Zone Signs"; and

(b) the Controlled Vehicle Access Zone Sign shall be

sbstituted by the following

"

".

5. The Third Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

substituted by the following

"THIRD SCHEDULE

(Regulation 5)

1. (a)

The fees to be charged for accessing a charging zone

shall be the following

Access for first 30 minutes

Free

Access over 30 minutes up to 60 minutes: €0.82

Access over 60 minutes

€0.82 per hour or

part thereof with a

maximum

daily

charge of €6.52

Public holidays falling on a day during Free.

which the charging zone is in force

(b) Payment of access fees

Access fees imposed for accessing a charging zone shall be paid

by the owner or keeper of the vehicle to the Operator either

personally, or by post or on-line or by other methods offered by the

Operator. The Operator shall pass all the fees collected over to the

Authority.

(c) When the area designated as a charging zone is accessed

during periods of time when the charging zone is not in force, access

is free.

2. The charges provided in paragraph 1 above shall be

increased or decreased by the percentage indicated below in the

circumstances indicated

For payments before invoice

Applicable charge discounted

is sent and for automatic debit

by 10%

Payment at invoice

Applicable charge

Payment after 30 days after

Applicable charge increased

first invoice

by 2% or €5.82, whichever is

the higher, if not settled

within 30 days and by another

2% if not settled within the

next 30 days

Payment after 90 days after Applicable charge increased

first invoice

by 100%.

3. In the case of the locality designated as a charging zone in

the First Schedule -

(a)

no access fee shall be charged in respect of a

chargeable vehicle which accesses the charging zone after 14.00

hrs and exits that zone before 08.00 hrs of the following day;

(b) where a chargeable vehicle accesses the charging

zone 30 minutes before the time in which the charging zone

discontinues to remain in force, no access fee shall be charged if

the vehicle remains within the charging zone until the time in

which the charging zone discontinues to remain in force; and

(c)

where a chargeable vehicle accesses the charging

zone any time between 08.00 and 14.00 and remains in that

charging zone after 14.00 the access fee shall be charged -

(i) for the time the vehicle remains in that zone

before 14.00 other than for the first 30 minutes, and

additionally

(ii) for the time it remains in the said zone

between 14.00 hrs and 18.00 hrs.".

€0.36