Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

L. N. 50 of 2019

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 43 of the

Authority for Transport in Malta Act and 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 Passenger Transport Citation.

Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Passenger Transport Services Regulations, S.L. 499.56.

hereinafter referred to as ''the principal regulations''.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) immediately after the definition ''designated person''

thereof, there shall be added the following new definition

'' ''Directive 2005/55/EC'' means Directive 2005/55/

EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28

September 2005 on the approximation of the laws of the

Member States relating to the measures to be taken against

the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from

compression ignition engines for use in vehicles, and the

emission of gaseous pollutants from positive ignition

engines fuelled with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas

for use in vehicles;''; and

(b) immediately after the definition ''regular weekly rest

period'' thereof, there shall be added the following new

definition

'' ''Regulation (EC) No 595/2009'' means Regulation

(EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 18 June 2009 on type-approval of motor

vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy

duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair and

maintenance information and amending Regulation (EC)

No 715/2007 and Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing

Directives 80/1269/EEC, 2005/55/EC and 2005/78/EC;''.

Regulation 116 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in sub-regulation (2) thereof, the words ''if it has been

manufactured not more than ten years before the date of

application for a passenger transport vehicle licence in Malta

provide that:'' shall be substituted by the following

''if

(a) the applicant has submitted an application

for its registration on or before the 30th September

2019 and it has been issued a type-approval

certificate by a competent authority of a Member

State or by any other body approved by the Authority

which certifies that the vehicle’s emissions are

classified as Euro IV or Euro V according to

Directive 2005/55/EC, or Euro VI according to

Regulation (EC) No 595/2009; or

(b) the applicant has submitted an application

for its registration on or after the 1st October 2019

and it has been issued a type-approval certificate by a

competent authority of a Member State or by any

other body approved by the Authority which certifies

that the vehicle’s emissions are classified as Euro V

according to Directive 2005/55/EC or Euro VI

according to Regulation (EC) No 595/2009;”;

(b) paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (2)

thereof, shall be renumbered as paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of

sub-regulation (2) thereof; and

(c) in sub-regulation (3) thereof, the words ''paragraph

(c)'' shall be substituted by the words ''paragraph (e)''.

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