Motor Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act

L.N. 86 of 2013

MOTOR VEHICLES REGISTRATION AND LICENSING ACT

(CAP. 368)

Motor Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act

(Amendment) 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

Registration and Licensing Act (Amendment) Rules, 2013 and these

rules shall be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles

Registration and Licensing Act, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal Act".

(2) These rules shall be deemed to have come into force on the

29th November, 2012.

In Category A of the First Schedule to the principal Act,

the table under the words "Latest Euro standard" in respect of

category N1 vehicles, special purpose vehicles, tractor units and light

weight three-wheeled vehicles having the characteristic of a motor

vehicle, shall be substituted by the following

"

Latest European standard

vehicles with a maximum authorised

mass of up to 1,305 kg

Kg x 0.35 + cc x 0.39 x €1

vehicles with a maximum authorised

mass exceeding 1,305 kg up to 1,760 kg Kg x 0.39 + cc x 0.43 x €1

vehicles with a maximum authorised

mass exceeding 1,760 kg up to 3,500 kg Kg x 0.43 + cc x 0.48 x €1 ".

The Second Schedule to the principal Act shall be

amended as follows

(a)

Category A thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) 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%

";

(ii) 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

(iii) 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";

(b) in Category C thereof the first table thereunder shall

be substituted by the following

Engine capacity

Not exceeding 250cc

0%

Exceeding 250cc but not exceeding

500cc

cc x RV x 0.045%

Exceeding 500cc but not exceeding

800cc

cc x RV x 0.046%

Exceeding 800cc

cc x RV x 0.047%

".

Where the registration of motor vehicles to which rule 2

and rule 3 refer has been effected between the 1st December, 2012

and the date of publication of these rules, and the registration tax as

2012. established in the First Schedule or in the Second Schedule prior to

the publication of these rules has been paid, the Authority for

Transport in Malta shall, immediately after the publication of these

rules, refund to the person effecting such payment the payment made

in excess of the tax rates as established under rule 2 or rule 3, as the

case may be.

The Motor Vehicles Registration and Licensing Act

(Amendment of the Second Schedule) Rules, 2013, are hereby

revoked.

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