S.L. 499.56 Art. 7Application for an operator’s licence.

(1) An application for the grant of an operator’s licence shall be made to the Authority and shall be in the form and contain such particulars as the Authority may require and shall be submitted together with:

(a) a certificate issued by the Police detailing any criminal offences and, or contraventions for which the applicant and, or the persons mentioned in regulation 6(2) and

(4) may have been sentenced together with the punishment thereof: Provided that where the applicant and/or the persons mentioned in regulation 6(2) and (4) are not normally resident in Malta an extract from a judicial record or, failing that, an equivalent document issued by a competent judicial or administrative authority of the country of origin or the country from which such persons come shall suffice: Provided further that where the country of origin or the country from where such persons come does not issue such document, the said document may be replaced by a declaration on oath or by a solemn declaration made by the person concerned in front of a competent judicial or administrative authority or, where appropriate, a notary in that person’s country of origin or the country from where such persons come. Such authority or notary shall issue a certificate attesting the authenticity of the declaration on oath or solemn declaration;

(b) a certificate of competence granted to the designated person in terms of regulation 11;

(c) a declaration signed by an auditor or accountant in the form set out in the First Schedule;

(d) particulars of the number and class or description of any passenger transport motor vehicle available for use in the relevant road passenger transport business or proposed such business. The said vehicles shall be registered with the Authority;

(e) where the passenger transport vehicles to be covered by the operator’s licence are not registered in the name of the applicant, a signed declaration from the registered owner in favour of the operation of the said vehicles under that particular operator’s licence;

(f) a declaration giving the details of its operating centre;

(g) particulars of mobile workers, if any, employed or to be employed by the operator;

(h) particulars of the financial resources available as regards any such relevant business.

(2) The documents prescribed in sub-regulation (1)(a), (c) and

(e) shall not be accepted if produced more than three months after date of issue.

(3) The Authority may require any particulars given by an applicant in relation to an application mentioned in sub-regulation

(1) to be contained in a statutory declaration or in a sworn affidavit in such manner as the Authority shall specify.

(4) An application for the grant of an operator’s licence shall be accompanied by the fee stipulated Part 1, Item (ii) of the Tenth Schedule.