Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire Services

L.N. 186 of 2023

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire Services

(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2023

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:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Light Passenger Citation and

Transport Services and Vehicle Hire Services (Amendment No. 2) scope.

Regulations, 2023 and these regulations shall be read and construed as S.L. 499.68.

one with the Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire

Services Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to provide that any person

who applies for a new driver’s permit, or for the renewal of a driver’s

permit, shall be in possession of a valid driving licence issued by the

Authority or by the competent authority of any other EU Member

State.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulation, immediately Amends

after the definition ""electric kick scooter" or "e-kickscooter"", there regulation

the principal

shall be added the following new definition

regulations.

" "European Union" means the "European Union"

as defined in article 2 of the European Union Act and

shall also include Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein;".

Paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1) of regulation 39 of the Amends

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new regulation

the principal

paragraph

regulations.

"(a) is in possession of a valid driving licence issued by

the Authority or by the competent authority of any other Member

State of the European Union;".

In paragraph (b) of the proviso to sub-regulation (3) of

regulation 44 of the principal regulations, the words "regulation 9 and

41." shall be substituted by the words "regulation 9 and 41; and"; and

immediately thereafter there shall be added the following new

paragraph

"(c) a valid driving licence issued by the Authority or by

the competent authority of any other Member State of the

European Union.".

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