Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 92 of 2014

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by 43 of the Authority for

Transport in Malta Act and by article 54 of the Traffic Regulation

Ordinance, the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure has, after

consultation with the Authority for Transport in Malta, made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Passenger Transport Citation.

Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2014 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Passenger Transport Services S.L.499.56

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 68G of the principal regulations shall be Amends

regulation 68G

amended as follows

of the principal

regulations.

(a)

sub-regulation (2) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(2) A passenger on a motor route bus who is not

in possession of a ticket showing that the appropriate fare

has been paid prior to or upon boarding the motor route

bus, shall, on the demand of the driver or the motor route

bus inspector or the authorised officer of the Authority, pay

the due fare together with a penalty fare of fifty euro (€50).

The driver or the motor route bus inspector shall, upon

receiving payment from the passenger, provide a receipt

for the amount paid. The authorised officer of the

Authority shall have the power to take all such necessary

measures in order to demand and obtain the payment of the

fare and penalty fare from any such passenger who is not

in possession of a ticket showing that the appropriate fare

has been paid. Any passenger on a motor route bus who

fails to pay the fare and the penalty fare shall be guilty of

an offence. The authorised officer of the Authority shall

have the power to obtain from any passenger who refuses

to pay the appropriate fare and/or the penalty fare

information relating to his details for the purposes of

taking legal action against that passenger in terms of these

regulations. Any passenger who refuses to give such

information to an authorised officer of the Authority shall

be guilty of an offence."; and

(b) in the proviso to sub-regulation (3), for the words

"ten euro (€10)" substitute the words "fifty euro (€50)".

Sub-regulation (9) of regulation 107 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(9) Any person who fails to pay the penalty fare due in

terms of regulation 68G(1) and/or who refuses to give the

necessary information relating to his details to an authorised

officer of the Authority for the purposes of taking legal action

against that person in terms of these regulations, shall be guilty

of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine

(ammenda) of two hundred euro (€200).".

The Twelfth Schedule of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

paragraph 1 thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"1. The maximum fares payable for public

passenger transport services within the Island of Malta

which are scheduled to depart from the point of origin of

the relative public passenger transport route from 05.30

and up to and including 23.00 shall not exceed those set

out in table 1 below

Table 1

Children and

Validity

Adult

Student

Elderly

Period

€

€

Persons

€

€

2-hour

1.30

n/a*

0.30

Day

1.50

n/a*

0.50

7-day

6. 50 n/a* 2.30 30-day

00

21.00

n/a*

90-day

72.00

60.00

n/a*

* not available .";

(b)

paragraph 2 thereof shall be deleted; and

(c)

paragraphs 3 to 11 thereof shall be re-numbered as

paragraphs 2 to 10 respectively.

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