Traffic Regulation Ordinance (Cap. 65), article 54

54. (1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Authority, make regulations in respect of road traffic and the conveyance of persons or the carriage of goods. (2) Without prejudice to the gener ality of the aforesaid powers, such regulations shall i n particular provide: (a) for the grant, renewal, transfer, suspension and cancellation of licences in respect of motor vehicles, the drivers thereof, the conductors of motor buses, motor vehicle garages, and for such other licences in connection with motor vehic les and the users thereof as may be necessary; (b) for prescribing the services which must be given by a TRAFFIC REGULATION [CAP . 65. 23 motor bus, the time, manner and conditions in which or under which such service is to be given and the place from which orders, agreements or other arrangements for such services are to be given or made, and for requiring the distribution among the owners of buses, or of such part thereof as may be prescribed in the regulations, of all fares, fees and other receipts collected by them, in the manner, terms and conditions prescribed in the regulations; (c) concerning the construction, equipment, condition and maintenance of motor vehicles and the periodical examination of motor vehic les by official experts; (d) concerning the classification of motor vehicles according to the ir use as approved by the Authority; (e) for ordering inside motor vehicles the display of any information; (f) for prescribing the registers to be kept by licensees of motor vehicles licensed for hire, and the information to be supplied by such licensees to the Authority; (g) for controlling, restricting or prohibiting the passage or stopping of motor vehicles through or on any road, street, lane, square or other place of public thoroughfare; (h) for the management and control of parking places and of motor vehicles while they are standing on or moving into or out of park ing places, for prescribing any charges to be made for parking, and the use of mechanical apparatus indicating the amount and payment of such charges, for traffic signs, for pedestrian crossings and for the restriction or control of the movement of pedestrians in, through or across any road, street or other places of public thoroughfare; (i) generally for the control of the use of motor vehicles on the road and for the regulation of traffic of motor vehicles on ferry-boats within the islands of Malta and Gozo and between such islands; (j) for the removal, storage or disposal or the clamping of any vehicle found on any road in contravention of any law or regulation made thereunder, or of any vehicle, seacraft or other thi ng causing a nuisance, inconvenience or obstruction in any street, road, quay, wharf or other public place, or where any licence or tax in respect thereof is not paid, or where any fine due in respect of any offence committed through the use of such vehicle has not been duly paid, and - for prescribing the fees that may be due with respect to removal and storage of vehicles and with respect to the cl amping of vehicles; - for prescribing anything that may or may not be d o n e w i t h r e s p e c t t o c l a m p i n g a n d c l a m p e d 24 CAP. 65.] TRAFFIC REGULATION vehicles; (k) for exempting the Commissioner of Police or any other authority from any liability for damages arising in connection with the removal, storage and disposal of motor vehicles, seacraft or any other thing in accordance with regulations m ade under this article; (l) for prescribing the fees payable for the removal, storage and disposal of an y motor vehicle, seacraft or and other thing in accordance with regulations made under this article; (m) for any matter of procedure or of evidence in proceedings under or relati ng to this Ordinance or any regulations mad e thereunder. (3) For the purposes of this article the terms "motor vehicle" shall include any other vehicle. Offences against regulations. Amended by: XXIII. 1935.2; XXVI. 1956.6; II. 1972.2; XVII. 1974.3; XLI. 1975.5; XXXV . 1977.2; XL. 1977.4; XXVII. 1980.2; XV . 1981.2; VI. 1982.4; XIII. 1983.5; L.N. 162 of 1990; XXIII. 2000.30; L.N. 408 of 2007; XV . 2009.49; V . 2011.3, 10. Cap. 9.