General and Local Council Elections Polling

L.N. 62 of 2013

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

General and Local Council Elections Polling

(Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2013

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 General and Citation and

Local Council Elections, Polling (Restriction of Access) Regulations, commencement.

2013. (2) These regulations shall come into force on the 2nd March,

2013.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

Interpretation.

"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" includes 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 in March 2013, for the election

of members of the House of Representatives and Local Councils;

"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 Government Gazette on the 10th January 2013,

as amended by notice published in the Government Gazette of the

18th January 2013;

"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 Vehicles

Chief Electoral Commissioner, no vehicle shall have access to any prohibited

access to

street leading to the Counting Hall, Naxxar, or to any polling place Counting

and polling

and no vehicle shall go beyond a prohibitory sign with the words places.

"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 polling places, as follows

(a) from 6.00am to 10.00pm on Saturday, 2nd March,

2013, in the case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar

(b) from 6.00am to midnight on Friday, 8th March,

2013, in the case of the following polling places

(i)

Counting Hall;

(ii)

St Vincent de Paule residence;

(iii) Mater Dei Hospital;

(iv) Karen Grech Hospital;

(v)

Mount Carmel Hospital; and

(vi) Gozo General Hospital;

(c)

from 5.00am on Saturday, 9th March, 2013 to

2.00am on Sunday 10th March 2013, in the case of any other

polling place;

(d) from 5.00am on Saturday, 9th March, 2013, until the

publication of the final result for the General Elections, and

from 5.00am on Saturday, 16th March, 2013, until the

publication of the final result for the Local Council Elections, in

the case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar.

The transit of vehicles along Triq il-Markiż Scicluna, Triq

Torri Gauci and Triq Torri tal-Kaptan, Naxxar, will be suspended on

the 9th March, 2013 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 or by the

Commissioner of Police, will be permitted to pass.

No pedestrian shall, unless in possession of a permit 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,

Naxxar, or of any polling place as follows

(a)

from 6.00am to 10.00pm on Saturday, 2nd March,

2013, in the case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar;

(b) from 6.00am to midnight on Friday, 8th March,

2013, in the case of the following polling places

(i)

Counting Hall;

(ii) St Vincent de Paule residence;

(iii) Mater Dei Hospital;

(iv) Karen Grech Hospital;

(v)

Mount Carmel Hospital; and

(vi) Gozo General Hospital;

(c)

from 5.00am on Saturday, 9th March, 2013 to

2.00am on Sunday 10th March 2013, in the case of any other

polling place;

(d) from 5.00am on Saturday, 9th March, 2013, until the

publication of the final result for the General Elections, and

from 5.00am on Saturday, 16th March, 2013, until the

publication of the final result for the Local Council Elections, in

the case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar;

so however that the restriction indicated in paragraphs (a) (b) and (c)

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 wherefrom after having cast their vote.

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

to the Counting Hall, Naxxar, or of any polling place where parking is parking

vehicles.

prohibited or beyond any barrier or road block wherever put up by the

Police at any spot in the vicinity of the places as indicated in

regulations 3, 4 and 5 of these Regulations, which in terms of Legal

Notice 94 of 1997, as subsequently amended, are to be classified as

‘Tow Zones’ during the days and times as indicated. Vehicles found

in contravention of this regulation are subject to be towed.

Saving the provisions of subarticle (2) of article 64 of the Prohibition of

General Elections Act, the Commissioner of Police may prohibit any loitering.

person from loitering in the vicinity of the approaches to the Counting

Hall, Naxxar, 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 places as indicated in regulations 3, 4 and 5 of these

Regulations.

These regulations shall expire on the publication of the

final results of the polls, 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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