Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2023

L.N. 158 of 2023

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Passenger Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred 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:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Passenger

Transport Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Passenger

Transport Services Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2)

The scope of these regulations is

(a) to require that minibuses which are not new motor

vehicles shall only be registered if they meet the latest Euro VI

emissions standard, while their maximum age from the year of

manufacture shall not exceed ten (10) years;

(b) to extend by one (1) year and three (3) months the

period of applicability of the obligation to pay the entry fee, and

immediately after the end of this period;

(c) to remove the obligation of payment of the entry fee

for minibuses which are new motor vehicles, while retaining it

for passenger transport vehicles which are not new motor

vehicles.

(3) These regulations shall come into force within two (2)

months from their publication in the Gazette.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) immediately after the definition "Member State"

thereof there shall be added the following new definition

" "minibus" means a passenger transport vehicle

which has not more than twenty-nine (29) passenger seats,

in addition to the driver’s seat;";

(b) immediately after the definition "national passenger

transport services" thereof there shall be added the following

new definition

" "national type approval" shall have the same

meaning as assigned to it in Regulation (EU) 2018/858;";

(c) immediately after the definition "Regulation (EU) No

165/2014" thereof there shall be added the following new

definition

" "Regulation (EU) 2018/858" means Regulation

(EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the

Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market

surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of

systems, components and separate technical units intended

for such vehicles, amending Regulations (EC) No 715/2007

and (EC) No 595/2009 and repealing Directive 2007/46/

EC;"; and

(d) immediately after the definition "two way

communication system" thereof there shall be added the

following new definition

" "type-approval certificate" shall have the same

meaning as assigned to it in Regulation (EU) 2018/858;".

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 28 of the principal Amends

regulation 28 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) paragraph (b) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(b) has emissions levels that are classified as Euro

VI according to Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 and not

more than ten (10) years shall have passed from the year in

which it would have been manufactured;"; and

(b) paragraph (c) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"(c) is already registered for use on the road for hire

or reward in any other country and has been issued a type-

approval certificate or has been granted national type-

approval by a competent authority of a Member State, or by

any body approved by the Authority, and furthermore no

modification was effected thereto after the issue of the said

certificate or approval;".

Regulation 117 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new sub-regulation

"(1) For a period of fourteen (14) years and three (3)

months from the coming into force of these regulations, the

application fee for a passenger transport vehicle licence

referred to in regulation 27 shall be made up of two (2)

parts being the application fee and the entry fee, where this

is applicable, as stipulated in Part 4 of the Tenth

Schedule."; and

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

following new sub-regulation

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

the obligation to pay the application fee stipulated in item 1

of Part 4 of the Tenth Schedule shall continue to apply,

while the entry fee stipulated in item 2 of Part 4 of the

Tenth Schedule shall, where this is applicable, continue to

apply only for the licensing of passenger transport vehicles

which are not new motor vehicles.".

In the proviso to item 2 of Part 4 of the Tenth Schedule to

the principal regulations, immediately after the words "tail lift vans

which are new motor vehicles," there shall be added the words

"minibuses which are new motor vehicles that are licensed from 19th

August 2023 onwards,".

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