Motor Vehicles (Offroading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

L.N. 74 of 2013

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Motor Vehicles (Offroading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and 62 of

the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for

Tourism, Culture and the Environment, after consultation with the

Malta Environment and Planning Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles Citation.

(Offroading) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles S.L. 504.14

(Offroading) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

for the definition "Department" there shall be

substituted the following

" "Competent Authority" means

the

Malta

Environment and Planning Authority;";

(b)

for the definition "Director" there shall be

substituted the following

" "Director" means the Director responsible for

environment protection within the Competent Authority, or

his designated representative;"; and

(c)

for the definition "offroading site" there shall be

substituted the following

" "offroading site" means any of the places which

saving any other authorization, permit or licence required

according to law is authorized in writing by the Competent

Authority to be used for offroading;".

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 4 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"4.

(1) Subject to all the provisions of the Motor

Vehicles Insurance (Third-party Risks) Ordinance, it shall not

be lawful for any person to use or to cause any other person to

use a motor vehicle for offroading unless, in relation to the use

of the vehicle by that person or that other person, as the case

may be, there is in force a policy of insurance in respect of their

third-party risks which covers any kind of offroading or

offroading event.

(2)

The organizer of an offroading event shall ensure

that all events which fall under the provisions of these

regulations are appropriately and adequately insured to cover

any single occurrence or recurrence of damages sustained by

third party property, disability to persons or death as a result of

the activities being undertaken by the organizer in accordance

with these regulations.".

Sub-regulation (3) of regulation 5 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(3) The provisions of article 23 and of article 30(1) of

of the Criminal Code shall mutatis mutandis apply to

proceedings in respect of offences against these regulations,

sohowever that the disqualification from holding or obtaining

for such time as the court deems fit, a permit issued by the

Director, shall in no case be for less than one year.".

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