Polling (Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2015

L.N. 116 of 2015

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Polling (Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2015

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 Polling

(Restriction of Access) Regulations, 2015.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 11th April,

2015.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"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 on the 11th April, 2015, for the

National Referendum and, where applicable, the Local Council

elections;

"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 15th January 2015;

"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

Chief Electoral Commissioner, no vehicle shall have access to any

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

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

"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 places as from 5.00am on Saturday, 11th April, 2015

until -

(a)

the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 12th April 2015, in the case of

any polling place.

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

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

transit.

the 11th April, 2015 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, will be permitted to

pass.

No pedestrian shall, unless in possession of a permit issued Restriction on

to him by the Chief Electoral Commissioner or unless otherwise pedestrians.

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 from 5.00am on Saturday, 11th

April, 2015, until -

(a)

the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 12th April, 2015, in the case of

any polling place,

so however that the restriction indicated in paragraph (b) 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

therefrom 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 beyond a parking

vehicles.

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 said Counting Hall or polling places from 5.00 a.m. on

Saturday 11th April, 2015 until -

(a)

the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 12th April, 2015, in the case of

any polling place.

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

General Elections Act, the Commissioner of Police may prohibit any

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 said Counting Hall or polling places as from 5.00 a.m.

on Saturday, 11th April, 2015 until -

(a) the publication of the final result of the poll, in the

case of the Counting Hall, Naxxar, and

(b) 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, 12th April, 2015, in the case of

any polling place.

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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