Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences)

L.N. 298 of 2025

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 54 of the

Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 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 (Driving

Licences) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall

be read and construed as one with the Motor Vehicles (Driving

Licences) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal

regulations".

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations immediately

after the definition "State of the offence" there shall be added the

following new definitions

" "surrender of a driving licence" means the wilful decision

by the holder of a valid driving licence who satisfies the

requirements established by the Authority under a scheme which

may be in place from time to time to return such driving licence

to the Authority and to commit not to request the issuance of a

new driving licence for such period as may be established by the

Authority under such scheme;

"surrender period" means the period established under any

scheme which may be issued by the Authority from time to time

during which a holder of a valid driving licence shall be

precluded from driving any vehicle in Malta or in any other

country following the surrender of a driving licence, which

period is to be reckoned from the date of surrender of his driving

licence;".

Immediately after regulation 34 of the principal regulations

there shall be added the following new regulations

34A. (1) A holder of a valid driving licence who

"Surrender of a

satisfies the criteria for surrender of a driving licence as

may be established by the Authority under any scheme

which may be issued from time to time may return his

driving licence to the Authority and commit not to

request the issuance of a new driving licence in his favour

prior to the expiration of the surrender period.

(2) Every application for the surrender of a valid

driving licence shall be made to the Authority on the

prescribed form and the applicant shall, together with

such form, submit any documents which may be required

to show that the applicant satisfies the requirements for

eligibility.

(3) An application for the surrender of a driving

licence shall be processed and decided upon by the

Authority.

(4) The decision of the Authority shall be sent by

registered post to the applicant at the address indicated in

the application.

(5) When an application is accepted by the

Authority, the applicant shall be obliged to return to the

Authority the documents referred to in regulation 36(1)

by not later than five (5) days from the date when the

Authority’s decision is communicated to him in the

manner specified in sub-regulation (4).

(6) An applicant whose application to surrender

his driving licence is accepted by the Authority shall not

have the right to drive any vehicle, whether in Malta or in

any other country, during the surrender period.

(7) After the lapse of the surrender period, a

person who has surrendered his driving licence may

request the issuance of a new driving licence in his favour

without the need to satisfy the requirements established

in regulation 16

Provided that such person shall be obliged to

attend a number of hours of driving tuition, as may be

established by the Authority from time to time, at a

licensed motoring school and to provide documentary

evidence of such attendance to the Authority prior to

being issued with a new driving licence.

34B. (1) Upon surrender of a valid driving

Driver permits.

licence, any driver permits issued to such person to drive

any taxi, public passenger transport vehicle, light

passenger transport vehicle and, or any other vehicle

which may only be driven with a valid driving licence,

shall automatically be revoked and such person shall not

have the right to make use of such driver permits for the

surrender period.

(2) Where a holder of a driving licence who

decides to surrender his driving licence also holds a

driver’s permit issued by the Authority to drive any

particular category of vehicles, such person shall,

together with the application which shall be submitted on

the prescribed form and the return to the Authority of the

documents referred to in regulation 36(1), shall also

return to the Authority all driver tags in his possession.

(3) After the lapse of the surrender period and the

issuance of a new driving licence in accordance with

regulations 34A(7), a person who also surrendered a

driver’s permit to the Authority, shall be obliged to apply

with the Authority on the prescribed form and subject to

the provision of all necessary documentation for the

issuance of a new driver’s permit.

(4) Following the submission of such application,

the Authority shall issue a new driver’s permit to the

applicant only upon verifying and confirming that the

applicant still satisfies all other requirements established

under the applicable legislation, including the

requirement of good conduct and repute, for the driver’s

permit to be issued once again in favour of such person.".

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