Blue Grotto and Neighbouring Caves Boats Service (Fares)

L.N. 260 of 2023

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Blue Grotto and Neighbouring Caves Boats Service (Fares)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 43(1) and (3)

of the Authority for Transport in Malta Act, the Minister responsible

for transport, in consultation with the Authority for Transport in Malta,

has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Blue Grotto and Citation and

Neighbouring Caves Boats Service (Fares) (Amendment) Regulations, commencement.

2023 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Blue Grotto and Neighbouring Caves Boats Service (Fares) S.L. 499.46.

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

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

months from their publication in the Gazette.

(3) The sequence of the definitions in regulation 3 of the

principal regulations shall follow the alphabetical order.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 3 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) immediately after the definition "Blue Grotto

commercial vessels operators" there shall be added the following

new definition

" "disability" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the United Nations Convention on the

Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act;";

(b) the definition "persons with special needs" shall be

substituted by the following new definition

"persons with disability" means any person in

possession of a specific identification document or other

documentation acknowledging such disability;".

The Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Substitutes the

Schedule to the

substituted by the following new Schedule

principal

regulations.

"SCHEDULE

(regulation 2)

TARIFF OF FARES

Children under 3

No charge

years

Children aged 3

€5.00

to 10 years

Persons aged 11

€10.00

years and over

Persons

with

No charge".

disability

In the principal regulations, in the Maltese version only, the

General

amendment to

words "nol" and "nolijiet" shall be substituted by the words "noll" and

the principal

"nollijiet" respectively wherever they occur.

regulations.

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