- National Road Traffic Amendment Bill, 2009: For public comments (Gazette No. 32312 – Notice 870)22.33 MB
To amend the National Road Traffic Act, 1996, so as to insert certain definitions and to amend others. To create for the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, manufacturers, builders, bodybuilders, importers and manufacturers of number plates. To empower the MEC to register the applicant as a manufacturer, body builder, builder, importer and manufacturer of number plates. To empower only a provincial Department of Transport or municipality to operate a driving license testing centre. To empower the CEO of RTMC to approve and register a driving license testing centre. To empower the Minister to prescribe training procedures and disqualification of persons appointed by an authority. To impose a duty on drivers to be in physical possession of drivers licenses or proof thereof when driving a motor vehicle. To empower the Driving license testing centres to issue a drivers license. To prohibit the issuance of a driving license or learners license of a person who has been convicted of using an aid material in order to pass the driving test. To set the 1 May 2003 as the date upon which the provision of section 18(6)(a) shall come into effect. To regulate the registration and grading of applicants as a driving school instructor and to direct how the application and registration of applicant shall be processed. To formalize the driving school industry and prohibit unregistered and ungraded driving schools and instructors from operating as such. To empower the MEC to approve applications for registration of driving schools. To empower the MEC to prescribe regulations as to how to handle applications as a driving school instructor. To empower the MEC to suspend, cancel or deregister a driving school when suspected of contradicting this act. To empower the MEC to declare as void, documents purporting to be driving licenses issued in contravention of the Act and to empower the inspectorate of the driving license testing centres to destroy such documents. To empower the Minister to appoint a person, authority or a body as an inspectorate of driving license testing centres. To prohibit the use and presentation of someone's license unuder false pretenses. To provide for the suspension of driving licenses and the circumstances under which a license should be suspended where a person exceeds to speed limit in excess of 30km per hour over the applicable speed limit in an urban area, and a speed in excess of 40km per hour over the applicable speed limit outside an urban area or incidental matters connected therewith.
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