S.L. 65.11 Art. 127Speed limits.

(1) No motor vehicle shall exceed the speed limit as shown in the table hereunder:

Maximum speed in kilometres per hour

Class of vehicle In towns and Outsidetowns villages or villages

(A) Fitted with pneumatic tyres Taxicars ................................. 50 80 Motor vehicles for hire ........... 50 80 Self-drive motor vehicles ....... 50 80 Private cars ............................ 50 80 Motor cycles .......................... 50 80 Motor cycles for hire .............. 50 80 Motor hearses ........................ 50 80 Invalid carriages .................... 50 80 Minibuses .............................. 40 60 Goods vehicles up to 3 tonnes 40 60 Goods vehicles over 3 tonnes 40 60 Industrial and agricultural vehicles ................................. 20 30 Towing vehicles ..................... 20 30 Motor ambulances .................. No limit No limit Fire engines ........................... No limit No limit Police and High Level International Delegations escorted by the Police, Armed Forces , Corradino Correctional Facility in cases when transporting high-risk inmates or in case of emergency , enforcement officers of the Authority and community officers in cases of emergency and Customs vehicles on emergency or priority duty ..... No limit No limit

(B) Fitted with solid tyres All vehicles ............................ 15 20

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (1), the Authority may prescribe in respect of any particular road or area a lower speed limit than that specified in sub-regulation (1):

Provided that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply to any motor vehicle participating in a sporting event held with the permission of the Commissioner of Police on a public road which is at the time closed to the public for the purpose of the holding of the said sporting event.

(3) Photographs, film, video-recordings, electronic images or any other record produced by a prescribed speed monitoring device, including any record of a measurement made by the device, shall be admissible in evidence and shall constitute proof of their contents if they are accompanied by a certificate signed by a police officer or community officer (in the same or in another document) as to the circumstances of date, time and place in which the photograph, film, video-recording, electronic image or other record was produced.

(4) Any device referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall be a device prescribed by order of the Minister responsible for Transport who may in any such order lay down any conditions as to the purposes for which, and the manner and other circumstances in which, the device is to be used.

(5) A document purporting to be a document, record or signed certificate of the kind mentioned in sub-regulation (1) shall be deemed to be such a document, record or certificate signed as aforesaid unless the contrary is proved.

(6) The owner of the vehicle which is identified in any document, record or signed certificate referred to in sub-regulation

(1) shall be responsible for any offence proved by the same document, record or signed certificate unless the driver of the vehicle when the offence was committed is shown to have been stopped and identified by the police immediately after the commission of the offence.

(7) Any image recorded by any means referred to in sub-regulation (3) may be converted from one format to another, transmitted, stored or reproduced by electronic or any other means that allows the recorded image to be reproduced in intelligible form including, without limitation, electronically.

(8) Where a recorded image has been stored in electronic format as provided in sub-regulation (7), the recorded image may be reproduced in paper format which shall have the same effect for all purposes as if it were an original document if the reproduction is certified to be such in the certificate mentioned in sub-regulation (3).

(9) Any device prescribed under sub-regulation (3) shall be deemed to have been functioning accurately and correctly in all respects at the time that any document or record referred to in the said paragraph was produced by it unless the contrary is proved.

(10) The person against whom a certificate under sub-regulation

(3) is produced may require the attendance of the police officer or community officer who purportedly signed the certificate for the purpose of cross-examination.

(11) For the purposes of sub-regulations (3) to (6), ''speed monitoring device'' means a device prescribed under sub-regulation

(3) that is capable of photographing or capturing the image of a motor vehicle while simultaneously measuring and recording its speed.