Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire Services

L.N. 148 of 2025

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire Services

(Amendment) Regulations, 2025

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) scope.

Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall be read and construed as

one with the Light Passenger Transport Services and Vehicle Hire S.L. 65.33.

Services Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal S.L. 499.68.

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 to drive a motorcycle or a motor tricycle, shall be licenced in

accordance with the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations. S.L. 65.18.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations immediately Amends

after the definition "motorcycle" there shall be added the following regulation

the principal

new definition

regulations.

""motor tricycle" means a vehicle with three symmetrically

arranged wheels (category L5e) fitted with an engine having a

cylinder capacity of more than 50cm 3 if of the internal

combustion type and, or a maximum design speed of more than

45 km/h;".

Regulation 39 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 39 of

substituted by the following new regulation

the principal

regulations.

39. (1) An applicant for a driver’s permit

"Conditions for

obtaining a driver’s

shall, before being granted the authorisation, satisfy the

permit.

Authority that he is

(a) certified as medically fit to drive;

(b) in possession of the requisite skills to

act as a driver in terms of regulation 40; and

(c) of good conduct and repute.

(2) In order to drive an M1 vehicle a driver shall

be 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.

(3) In order to drive a motorcycle or a motor

tricycle a driver shall be duly licensed in accordance

with the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences)

Regulations.

(4) A driver shall be obliged to satisfy the

conditions of this regulation at all times during the

validity of the permit.

(5) Any driver holding a driver’s permit issued

by the Authority shall be obliged to inform the Authority

in writing of any conviction against him of any offence

referred to in regulation 9(1)(a) within twenty-one (21)

days from such conviction or, when an appeal is entered,

within twenty (20) days from when such appeal is

decided.

(6) Any driver who contravenes sub-regulation

(3) shall be guilty of an offence.".

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