Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations, 2022

L.N. 263 of 2022

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Regulations, 2022

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 responsible for transport, after

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

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles Citation.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2022 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 65.11.

referred to as "the principal regulations".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, immediately Amends

after the definition "designated parking space for disabled persons" regulation

there shall be added the following new definition

" "designated parking space for electric vehicles" means a

parking space reserved by the Authority for electric vehicles in

accordance with these regulations;".

Sub-relegation (9) of regulation 78 of the principal Amends

regulations shall be deleted and immediately thereafter there shall be regulation

added the following new sub-regulations

"(10) The Authority may reserve designated

parking spaces for the parking of electric vehicles.

(11) In the parking spaces which are reserved

by the Authority for electric vehicles as indicated by

the appropriate sign established in the Traffic Signs

and Carriageway Markings Regulations, between

00am and 10.00pm only electric vehicles may be

parked to be charged, and for a maximum of thirty

(30) minutes after the vehicle is fully charged,

whereas any other electric vehicle may be parked

thereon without restrictions during the remaining

hours

Provided that for the purposes of this sub-

regulation, "electric vehicle" means a Category M1 or

N1 vehicle which is powered solely and exclusively

by one or more electric motors using electrical energy

stored in batteries, which batteries are charged with

an external electricity source, including plug-in

hybrid vehicles and excluding electric motor cycles.

(12) A person who is found in breach of sub-

regulations (6) or (7) or (8) or (11) shall be guilty of

an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine

(ammenda) of one hundred euro (€100).".

€0.18