Closure of Vehicle Roadworthiness Testing Stations

L.N. 114 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Closure of Vehicle Roadworthiness Testing Stations

(Amendment No. 2) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Closure of Vehicle Citation and

Roadworthiness Testing Stations (Amendment No. 2) Order, 2020 and commencement.

this order shall be read and construed as one with the Closure of S.L. 465. 25.

Vehicle Roadworthiness Testing Stations Order, hereinafter referred to

as the "principal order".

(2)

This order shall come into force on the 1st April, 2020.

Article 2 of the principal order shall be amended as Amends article

2 of the

principal order.

(a) the words "road haulage market." shall be substituted

by the words "road haulage market:"; and

(b) immediately thereafter there shall be added the

following new proviso

"Provided further that all authorised vehicle

roadworthiness testing stations may remain open solely to

carry out vehicle roadworthiness tests on the following

(a) used motor vehicles imported into Malta

prior to their first registration with the Authority for

Transport in Malta;

(b) motor vehicles which had been garaged in

accordance with the provisions of the Registration S.L. 368. 02.

and Licensing of Motor Vehicles Regulations prior to

the 20 th March, 2020 and whose owners require the

issuance of new registration plates and the renewals

of their vehicles’ licences for the said vehicles to be

able to be used once again on the road;

(c) motor vehicles whose annual circulation

licence expired prior to the 20 th March, 2020 and

their licences had not been renewed, and which

require a vehicle roadworthiness certificate in order

to have their annual circulation licences renewed; and

(d) motor vehicles which require a vehicle

roadworthiness certificate in order to be transferred to

a third party.".

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