Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

L.N. 193 of 2017

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2017

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 54 of the Traffic

Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and

Capital Projects has, after consultation with the Authority for

Transport in Malta, made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles

(Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) (Amendment) Regulations,

2017, and shall be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles

(Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to implement the

provisions of Commission Directive (EU) 2016/2309 of 16 December

2016 adapting for the fourth time the Annexes to Directive 2008/68/

EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the inland

transport of dangerous goods to scientific and technical progress.

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(1) Without prejudice to regulations 6 and 7, dangerous

goods the transport of which is prohibited by Annex A and

Annex B to the ADR, as applicable with effect from the 1 st

January, 2017, shall not be transported by road.".

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