Government Gazette

Vol. 428, No. 22061, 14 February 2001

GENERAL NOTICE

Notice 141 of 2001

NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL ROADS AGENCY LIMITED

NATIONAL ROUTE 4: MAPUTO DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR TOLL ROAD: MIDDELBURG TOLL PLAZA, MACHADO TOLL PLAZA AND NKOMAZI TOLL PLAZA: PUBLICATION OF THE ADJUSTED AMOUNTS OF TOLL FOR THE VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE DATE UPON AND TIME AT WHICH THE TOLL TARIFFS SHALL BECOME PAYABLE

The Head of the Department hereby, in terms of section 28(4) read with section 27(3)of the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, 1998 (Act No. 7 of 1998), makes known that the amounts of toll which may be levied in terms of section 28 (2) of the said Act at the Middelburg, Machado and Nkomazi Toll Plazas on the toll road declared in terms of Government Notice No. 1447 of 7 November 1997, and the date and time at which the amounts of toll shall become payable, have been determined by the Minister of Transport in terms of section 27 (3) (a) thereof and that the said amounts shall be levied in terms of section 28(4) read with section 27 thereof, as set out in the Schedule hereto.

Mr S Msikinya
DIRECTOR GENERAL: TRANSPORT

SCHEDULE

  1. DEFINITIONS

    1.1"Motor vehicle" means an entity comprising one or more mechanically powered units with or without any trailer(s) physically joined by means of tow bars, tow ropes or mechanical articulation, and includes, without limitation-

    1. a motor cycle;
    2. a motor tricycle;
    3. a motor car;

    4. a vehicle which has pedals and mechanically powered units as an integral part thereof or attached thereto and which is designed or adapted to be propelled by means of either such pedals or such mechanical unit or both; and

    5. a light delivery vehicle ( a bakkie)

    1.2 "Motor cycle" means a motor vehicle which has two wheels and includes any such vehicle having a side-car attached thereto.

    1.3 "Motor tricycle" means a motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle with a side-car, which has three wheels and which is designed to be driven by means of the type of controls usually fitted to a motor cycle.

    1.4 "Motor car" means a motor vehicle, other than a motor cycle or a motor tricycle, designed or adapted solely or principally for the conveyance of persons not exceeding sixteen (16) in number.

    1.5 "Light delivery vehicle" means a motor vehicle designed or adapted for the conveyance of persons and freight with a tare not exceeding one comma five (1,5) tons and with no heavy axle as defined in paragraph 1.7 herein.

    1.6 "Axle" means a device or set of devices, whether continuous across the width of the vehicle or not, about which the wheels of the vehicle rotate and which is so placed that, when the vehicle is travelling straight ahead, the vertical center-lines of such wheels are in one vertical plane at right angles to the longitudinal center-line of such vehicle.

    1.7 "Heavy axle" means an axle the wheels of which are fitted with tyres of a size (bead seat diameter) greater than 406,4 millimetres (16 inches), or an axle with more than two (2) wheels irrespective of tyre size but excluding any axle of a motor cycle, a motor tricycle or a motor car.

    1.8 "Light vehicle" Light vehicles are motor vehicles, other than heavy vehicles as defined hereunder, with or without a trailer, and include motor cycles, motor tricycles, motor cars and light delivery vehicles.

    1.9 "Heavy vehicle" means a motor vehicle with at least one heavy axle.

1.10 "Trailer" means a vehicle which is not self-propelled and which is designed or adapted to be drawn by a motor vehicle but does not include a side-car attached to a motor cycle.

  1. CLASSIFICATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Class I: Light vehicles
Class II: Medium heavy vehicles
Medium heavy vehicles are heavy vehicles with two axles.
Class III: Large heavy vehicles
Large heavy vehicles are heavy vehicles with three or four axles.
Class IV: Extra large heavy vehicles
Extra large heavy vehicles are heavy vehicles with five or more axles
  1. AMOUNTS OF TOLL

    3.1 The amounts of toll payable at the Middelburg Toll Plaza shall be as follows:

    CLASS I: R 22.00
    CLASS II: R 55.00
    CLASS III: R 79.00
    CLASS IV R 110.00

    3.2 The amounts of toll payable at the Machado Toll Plaza shall be as follows:

    CLASS I: R 33.00
    CLASS II: R 88.50
    CLASS III: R 131.00
    CLASS IV R 185.00

3.3 The amounts of toll payable at the Nkomazi Toll Plaza shall be as follows:

CLASS I: R 25.00
CLASS II: R 48.00
CLASS III: R 71.00
CLASS IV R 101.00
  1. OPERATIONAL HOURS

The said toll road shall be open to traffic for 24 hours a day.

  1. EFFECTIVE DATE

The date and time from which the said amounts of toll shall become payable, shall be 31 March 2001 at 06h00.