Regulations, 2020

L.N. 183 of 2020

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 54 of the

Traffic Regulation Ordinance and by article 43 of the Authority for

Transport in Malta Act, the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport,

after consultation with the Authority for Transport in Malta, made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles (Driving

Licences) (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles (Driving

Licences) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) immediately after the definition "dual control

system", there shall be added the following new definition

'' ''electric kick scooter'' or ''e-kickscooter'' means a

stand-up device that has a handlebar, a deck and small hard

wheels powered by an electric motor and which also allows

for human propulsion;''; and

(b) the definition "Board" shall be substituted by the

following

" "Petitions Board" means the Petitions Board

established by regulation 3 of the Petitions (Local

Tribunals) Regulations;''.

In regulation 16 of the principal regulations, the words

''skills and behaviour.'' shall be substituted by the words ''skills and

behaviour:'' and immediately thereafter there shall be added the

following proviso

"Provided that for a category AM driving licence, the test

shall only consist of a theory test".

Regulation 18 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 18 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

" Eligibility to

Only applicants who have attained their

eighteenth birthday shall be eligible to sit for the theory

test

Provided that applicants for a category AM driving

licence who have attained their sixteenth birthday shall

be eligible to sit for the theory test.".

5. In regulation 21 of the principal regulations, the word Amends

regulation 21 of

"AM" shall be deleted.

the principal

regulations.

6. In paragraph (a) of the proviso regulation 26A(3)(b)(iii) of Amends

regulation 26A

the principal regulations, the word "AM" shall be deleted.

of the principal

regulations.

7. Paragraph (d) of regulation 50 of the principal regulations Amends

regulation 50 of

shall be substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"(d) licences granted for category A1, A2, A and B shall

be valid for vehicles in category AM;".

8. The First Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Amends the

First Schedule

amended as follows

to the principal

regulations.

(a) under the column entitled "Class of vehicle",the row

relative to Category AM thereof, immediately after the words

"Light quadricycles" there shall be added the words: "Electric

Kickscooter";

(b) immediately after the table, in paragraph (c) thereof,

the words "F shall be changed to category D1" shall be

substituted by the words "f shall be changed to category D1"; (c)

in the first proviso following paragraph (c) thereof, the words "a

category F driving licence" shall be substituted by the words "a

category f driving licence"; and

(d) in the second proviso thereof, the words "a category F

driving licence" shall be substituted by the words "a category f

driving licence".

9. In Column 2 under paragraph (a) of the Second Schedule to Amends the

the principal regulations, the row relative to Category AM, the number Second

Schedule to the

"18" shall be substituted by the following

principal

regulations.

"16 – Electric Kickscooters

18 – Mopeds

18 – Light quadricycles".

10. In item 1 of the Eighth Schedule to the principal

Amends the

Eighth Schedule

regulations, immediately after the words "categories A" there shall be

to the principal

added the words "AM,".

regulations.

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