S.L. 65.11 Art. 78Reserved parking spaces.

(1) Where any area or space in any road or square is marked as, or allotted to, a reserved parking, and the Commissioner of Police or the Authority issue a written permit in favour of the owners of vehicles who may make use of such area or space, no motor vehicle may be parked therein unless the relative permit is affixed on the front windscreen of the vehicle in such a way that the relative permit is clearly and fully visible.

(2) The Authority may reserve a designated parking space for disabled persons for the parking therein of authorised motor vehicles in accordance with the provisions of the Parking

Concessions for Persons with Disability Act.

(3) The Authority may reserve a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons for the parking therein of a particular motor vehicle registered in the name of a Blue Badge holder when the driver of such motor vehicle, besides being the holder of a valid Blue Badge issued in accordance with the Parking Concessions for Persons with

Disability Act, is also a person with a long-term and substantial physical impairment resulting in his full dependence on a wheelchair for his mobility: Provided that the particular motor vehicle shall be specially modified to be driven solely by the Blue Badge holder who is a wheelchair user in accordance with this sub-regulation:

Provided further that the Authority shall have the right to request any information as it may deem necessary to determine the Blue Badge holder’s full dependence on a wheelchair for his mobility including, inter alia, such medical certificates issued in his name which indicate that he has a long-term and substantial physical impairment that results in the full dependence on a wheelchair for his mobility.

(4) The Authority may also reserve a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons for the parking therein of a particular motor vehicle registered in the name of a person holding a valid Blue Badge issued in accordance with the Parking Concessions for Persons with Disability Act or in the name of a person entrusted with his care, if besides being the holder of a valid Blue Badge issued in terms of the Parking Concessions for Persons with Disability Act, is also a person with a:

(a) substantial and long-term physical impairment that results in:

(i) an absolute inability to walk more than twenty (20) metres; or

(ii) a condition wherein if he walks for more than twenty (20) metres this could be life threatening and or, severely detrimental to his health and well-being, or

(b) long-term mental, intellectual or psychosocial disability manifesting, inter alia, in behaviour of concern, and due to such behaviour he requires continuous human support:

Provided that the Authority shall have the right to request any information it may deem necessary to determine the Blue Badge holder’s long-term and substantial physical impairment or the severe and long-term mental, intellectual or psychosocial disability manifesting, in behaviour of concern, described in this sub-inter alia, regulation including, such medical certificates issued in his inter alia, name which indicate that he has the impairments attributed to the Blue Badge holder:

Provided further that whenever a Blue Badge holder is dependent on one or more persons, who is also entrusted with the care of the Blue Badge holder throughout the whole day and night, for his ambulation, the Authority shall have the right to request any information it may deem necessary to determine that the persons entrusted with the Blue Badge holder’s ambulation are permanently residing with the Blue Badge holder at his primary residential address including through, certified copies of the identification inter alia, documents of the persons entrusted with the ambulation of the Blue Badge holder and, whenever these are available, utility bills issued in the name of said person that clearly indicate that his permanent residence corresponds with that of the Blue Badge holder.

(5) When the Authority reserves a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons in the circumstances referred to in sub-regulation (3), the parking space shall have clearly and prominently marked or indicated in it the registration number of the authorised motor vehicle, whereas when the Authority reserves a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons in the circumstances referred to in sub-regulation (4), the parking space shall have clearly and prominently marked or indicated in it the Blue Badge number of the Blue Badge holder for whose benefit such a personalised parking place has been reserved.

(6) No person shall park or leave unattended any unauthorised motor vehicle on a designated parking space for disabled persons reserved by the Authority in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (2).

(7) No person, including a Blue badge holder, shall park or leave unattended any motor vehicle on a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons reserved by the Authority in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (3) or (4), except the Blue Badge holder or the person for whose benefit the Authority has reserved the personalised designated parking space.

(8) Any authorised person who parks a motor vehicle on a designated parking space for disabled persons shall be obliged to display the Blue Badge in its entirety or, in the case of a personalised designated parking space for disabled persons, the Blue Badge of the disabled person for whose benefit the Authority has reserved that personalised parking space, on the vehicle's front windscreen in such a way that the front of the Blue Badge, that is the side which displays the symbol of access, is clearly visible in its entirety in such a way that the authenticity and validity thereof may be verified. (9) Deleted by Legal Notice 263 of 2022.

(10) The Authority may reserve designated parking spaces for the parking of electric vehicles.

(11) In the parking spaces which are reserved by the Authority for electric vehicles as indicated by the appropriate sign established in the Traffic Signs and Carriageway Markings Regulations, between 7.00am and 10.00pm only electric vehicles may be parked to be charged, and for a maximum of thirty (30) minutes after the vehicle is fully charged, whereas any other electric vehicle may be parked thereon without restrictions during the remaining hours:

Provided that for the purposes of this sub-regulation, "electric vehicle" means a Category M1 or N1 vehicle which is powered solely and exclusively by one or more electric motors using electrical energy stored in batteries, which batteries are charged with an external electricity source, including plug-in hybrid vehicles and excluding electric motor cycles.

(12) A person who breaches sub-regulation (6) or (7) or (8) or (11) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine (ammenda) of two hundred and thirty three euro (€233).

(13) The Authority shall revoke the personalised designated parking spaces or shall otherwise modify the designated parking space including the signage and indications related to such personalised designated parking spaces issued in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (3) and (4), if it is established that:

(a) the Blue Badge holder, or the persons entrusted with his care and, or ambulation, have obtained the personalised designated parking spaces solely by means of fraud, deceit or false or misleading declarations, submissions and misrepresentations;

(b) the Blue Badge holder, or the persons entrusted with his care and, or ambulation, have changed their primary residential address, or are no longer entrusted with his care and, or are no longer permanently residing in the address kept in the Authority’s records;

(c) following a review of the information submitted to the Authority in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (3) and (4) or by an audit conducted by the Authority on the personalised designated parking spaces on its records, it transpires that the information previously submitted is no longer correct or does not adequately reflect the actual circumstances of the Blue Badge holder, or the persons entrusted with his care and, or ambulation, due to recent changes to the circumstances of said persons which were not duly communicated to the Authority for its approval; or

(d) the Blue Badge holder, or the persons entrusted with his care and, or ambulation are deceased:

Provided that it shall be the sole responsibility of the Blue Badge holder, or the persons entrusted with his care and, or ambulation, including legal persons that operate residential institutions to update the Authority with any material changes to their residential address or any other relevant information by means of a written communication and subsequently request the Authority’s approval for an alternative personalised designated parking space in such other location close to the Blue Badge holder’s new permanent address:

Provided further that any person who feels aggrieved by the decision of the Authority to refuse an application or request submitted in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (2), (3), (4) and, or this sub-regulation, or to revoke or modify the personalised designated parking space, shall have the right to appeal the decision in accordance with the provisions of this sub-regulation by means of an application filed before the Administrative Review Tribunal within twenty-one (21) days from the service of the decision of the Authority and such application shall clearly state the grounds for the judicial review of the Authority’s decision and the remedies sought by the appellant.