Motor Vehicle (Roadworthiness Test) (roadworthinesstest)

L.N. 330 of 2019

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicle (Roadworthiness Test)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2019

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

Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and

Capital Projects, after consultation with the Authority for Transport in

Malta, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicle Title.

(Roadworthiness Test) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicle (Roadworthiness S.L. 65.15.

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

The Eighth Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Substitutes the

Eighth Schedule

deleted and substituted by the following

to the principal

regulations.

"EIGHTH SCHEDULE

(Regulations 18A, 18B, 18E, 19 and 48)

Fees* and Frequency of Tests.

Category of vehicle

Full Fee

Full Fee

Full Fee

Frequency

€

€

€

of Tests

Up to 31 st

From 1 st

From 1 st

December

January

January

2020 to

31 st

December

Category I

Motor vehicles used for the carriage

of passengers and with more than

eight seats excluding the driver’s seat

(M2 and M3 vehicles)

26. 32

36. 32

32

B

Vehicles with a maximum

permissible mass not exceeding 3.5

tonnes

31.10

41.10

10

B

Vehicles with a maximum

permissible mass exceeding 3.5

tonnes

Category II

Motor vehicles used for the carriage

31.10

41.10

46.10

B

of goods and having a maximum

permissible mass exceeding 3.5

tonnes (N2 and N3 vehicles)

Category III

Trailers and semi-trailers

with a maximum permissible mass

26.32

36.32

41.32

C

not exceeding 3.5 tonnes (O1 and O2

vehicles)

31.10

41.10

46.10

B

with a maximum permissible mass

exceeding 3.5 tonnes

(O3 and O4 vehicles)

Category IV

Taxis

20.27

25.27

30.27

B

Chauffeur driven vehicles

20.27

25.27

30.27

B

M1 vehicles licensed for hire or

20.27

25.27

30.27

D/E

leasing

20.27

25.27

30.27

B

Ambulances

20.27

25.27

30.27

B

Caravans

Category V

Motor vehicles having at least four

wheels, normally used for the road

26.32

36.32

41.32

C/E

carriage of goods and with a

maximum permissible mass not

exceeding 3.5 tonnes (N1 vehicles)

Category VI

Motor vehicles having at least four

wheels, used for the carriage of

20.27

25.27

30.27

D/E

passengers and with no more than

eight seats excluding the driver’s

seat, including Hearses (M1 vehicles)

Category VII**

Mopeds, Motorcycles, Motor

Tricycles, Quadricicyles and Quad

14.33

19.33

24.33

A

Bikes (L3e, L4e, L5e and L7e

vehicles with an engine displacement

of more than 125cm³)

Category VIII***

Wheeled tractors, the use of which

31.10

41.10

46.10

D

mainly takes place on public roads

with a maximum design speed

exceeding 40 km/h (T5 vehicles)

Imported used vehicles

1. Without prejudice to regulation

18B, a used vehicle brought into

Malta from another Member State

shall be deemed to be covered by a

valid roadworthiness certificate in

accordance with these regulations if

that vehicle is already covered by a

roadworthiness certificate issued by As above

As above

As above

that Member State that is still valid in according to according according to

terms of the frequency intervals category to category category

established in Annex 1 of Directive

2009/40/EC and, with effect from 20

May 2018, those established in article

5 of Directive 2014/45/EU. The

Authority may however; for justified

reasons require any such vehicle to be

submitted for a roadworthiness test

prior to its registration in Malta.

2. A used vehicle imported from a

third country shall undergo a

roadworthiness test in accordance

with these regulations prior to

registration in Malta irrespective As above

As above

As above

according

to

according

according

to

whether or not that vehicle is already

category

to

category

category

covered by a valid roadworthiness

certificate issued by that country or

by any other Member State.

Change of holder of the registration

certificate of a vehicle

1. Without prejudice to regulation

18B, a vehicle which is covered by a

valid roadworthiness certificate in

accordance with these regulations,

shall not be required to undergo

another roadworthiness test in the

event that the holder of the As above

As above

As above

registration certificate of that vehicle according to according according to

changes.

The

Authority

may category to category category

however; for justified reasons require

any such vehicle to be submitted for a

roadworthiness test prior to changing

the holder of the registration

certificate of such vehicle.

* Fees inclusive of VAT.

** Subject to test with effect from such a date as the Minister responsible for transport may

by notice in the Gazette establish.

*** Subject to test with effect from 20 May 2018.

Frequency of test

A. Such frequency as the Minister responsible for transport may by notice in the Gazette

establish

B. One year from date of first registration and annually thereafter

C. Two years from date of first registration and biennially thereafter

D. Four years from date of first registration and biennially thereafter

E. One year from reaching a distance driven of more than 160,000km in a roadworthiness

test and annually thereafter.".

€0.36