S.L. 499.56 Art. 68FStoppingplacesfor motor route buses.

(1) Motor route buses, running on a public passenger transport route, may stop only at the authorised stopping place indicated by a BUS STOP sign, and then only for the purpose of setting down or picking up passengers: Provided that members of the Armed Forces of Malta, police officers or community officers and any officer of the Authority may, in the execution of their duty, stop and board any motor route bus at any point between one bus stop and another.

(2) The driver of a motor route bus shall stop at any bus stop sign, whenever a waiting passenger signals his intention of boarding the motor route bus, unless the maximum passenger capacity of the motor route bus has been reached.

(3) It shall likewise be the duty of the driver of a motor route bus to stop his vehicle at the first authorised stopping place immediately a passenger in the vehicle has signalled to him to do so by sounding the bell or other device provided in the motor route bus for such purpose.

(4) Every driver of a motor route bus shall, before stopping at an authorised stopping place, drive such motor route bus parallel and close to the kerb, in such a manner that any passenger may alight from such motor route bus directly onto the kerb, or board such motor route bus directly from the kerb.