Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

L.N. 358 of 2015

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

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

Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Passenger Transport Services

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

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 31 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(2) A passenger transport vehicle licence shall not be

renewed beyond thirty-five years from the date of manufacture

of the vehicle, provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply

in the case of vintage buses the licence of which shall be

renewed as long as the particular vintage bus is considered by

the Authority to be road worthy and safe to carry passengers

Provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of this

sub-regulation, the licence of such passenger transport vehicles

which reach the age of thirty-five years (to be reckoned from the

year of manufacture) on or after the 1st January, 2015 (unless

such licence has already been withdrawn) shall be extended up

to the 31st October, 2015.".

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