Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 216 of 2021

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 43 of the

Authority for Transport in Malta Act, 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, 2021 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Passenger Transport Services S.L. 499. 56.

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

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, the definition Amends

"new motor vehicle" shall be substituted by the following new regulation

the principal

definition

regulations.

" "new motor vehicle" means, for the purposes of these

regulations, a motor vehicle which has never been registered in

any country;".

Regulation 117 of the principal regulations shall be Amends

regulation 117

amended as follows

of the principal

regulations.

(a) in sub-regulation (1) thereof, the words "For a period

of eleven years" shall be substituted by the words "For a period

of thirteen (13) years";

(b) immediately after sub-regulation (1) thereof, there

shall be added the following new paragraph

"The obligation of payment of the entry fee shall apply

with retrospective effect as from the 19th May of the year

2020."; and

(c) sub-regulation (2) thereof, shall be substituted by the

following new sub-regulation

"(2) At the end of the period above-mentioned, the

Authority shall, six (6) months prior to the end of the period

referred to sub-regulation (1), hold consultations with

representatives of the operators in order to determine

whether the entry fee shall continue to apply and in order to

analyze the potential repercussions of the removal of the

entry fee.".

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