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BLUE GROTTO AND NEIGHBOURING CAVES BOATS SERVICE (FARES) REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (7)
Statutory Text (7 Articles)
BLUE GROTTO AND NEIGHBOURING CAVES
BOATS SERVICE (FARES)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 499.46
BLUE GROTTO AND NEIGHBOURING CAVES
BOATS SERVICE (FARES) REGULATIONS
28th November, 2006
LEGAL NOTICE 289 of 2006, as amended by Legal Notices 424 of 2007
and 260 of 2023.
The title of these regulations is the Blue Grotto and
Neighbouring Caves Boats Service (Fares) Regulations.
(regulation 2)
TARIFF OF FARES
Children under
No charge
3 years
Children aged 3
€5.00
to 10 years
Persons aged 11
€10.00
years and over
Persons
with
No charge
disability
The fares payable by passengers for the journey from Wied
iż-Żurrieq to the Blue Grotto and neighbouring caves and vice-
versa shall be those shown in the Schedule.
In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires
"Blue Grotto commercial vessels operators" means licensed
commercial vessel operators who provide boat transport services
from Wied iż-Żurrieq to the Blue Grotto and neighbouring caves
and vice-versa;
"disability" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Act;
"neighbouring caves" means Cat’s Cave, Filfla Cave, Reflection
Cave, Blue Grotto, Circle Cave, Elephant Foot, Honeymoon Cave
and Window Cave.
"persons with disability" means any person in possession of a
specific identification document or other documentation
acknowledging such disability;
"ticket" means a printed coupon issued as stipulated in regulation
4;
(1) There shall be set up a central office by the Blue Grotto
commercial vessels operators, which shall be responsible for the
sale and issue of tickets to passengers and the collection of the
relative fares prior to embarkation on any such boat
Provided that passengers may purchase a ticket from any
person authorised by the said central office.
(2) The maximum waiting time for each trip, as computed from
the time the first passenger boards a boat, shall be fifteen minutes.
(3) On payment of the relative fare and prior to departure, there
shall be issued to passengers a ticket which shall contain the
following information
(a) the fare paid;
(b) the date of issue of the ticket; and
(c) the duration of the tour as being of approximately
twenty-five minutes.
BLUE GROTTO AND NEIGHBOURING CAVES
BOATS SERVICE (FARES)
A passenger may be requested to produce his ticket on
demand by an authorised officer, in order to check and inspect the
ticket and its validity, both before boarding the boat and on board
the said boat. Such authorised officer should wear an appropriate
identification tag
Provided that for the purposes of these regulations, an
authorised officer shall mean an officer so appointed by the
Authority for Transport in Malta.