Government Gazette

Vol. 417, No. 20991, 17 March 2000

Regulation Gazette, No. 6755

GOVERNMENT NOTICE

No. R. 251

DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS

SOUTH AFRICAN PASSPORTS AND TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ACT, 1994

(ACT NO. 4 OF 1994)

SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PASSPORTS AND TRAVEL DOCUMENTS REGULATIONS

The Minister of Home Affairs has, under section 4 of the South African Passports and Travel Documents Act, 1994 (Act No. 4 of 1994), made the regulations set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Definitions

  1. In this Schedule "the Regulations" means the South African Passports and Travel Documents Regulations, published under Government Notice No. R. 784 of 10 May 1996, as amended by Government Notice Nos.R.1027 of 21 June 1996, R.580 of 11 April 1997, R.1564 of 21 November 1997, R.353 of 13 March 1998 and R.384 of 24 March 1999.

Substitution of regulation 16 of the Regulations

  1. The following regulation is hereby substituted for regulation 16 of the Regulations:

"Fees

16.(1) Subject to subregulations (2) and (3) the fees payable in respect of a South African passport or a travel document issued under these regulations, shall be as follows:

  1. South African Passport: R105: Provided that the fee payable for a new format South African passport that runs out of blank visa pages before the expiry date thereof shall be R80-00.
  2. Child passport: R80-00.
  3. Document for travel purposes: R80-00.
  4. Emergency passport: R35-00.
  5. Temporary passport: R50-00.

(2) No fees shall be payable in respect of an official passport, a crew member certificate, an emergency passport or temporary passport issued to a person referred to in regulation 2(3) or for the renewal of a passport referred to in regulation 17(3).

(3) The fees payable in respect of the replacement of a lost, stolen or damaged South African passport, child passport, document for travel purposes or temporary passport referred to in subregulation (1) and a passport referred to in regulation 17(3) shall be twice the amount prescribed in that subregulation: Provided that in instances where the document referred to was lost, stolen or damaged through no negligence on the part of the holder, only the normal fee shall be payable. ".

Short title and commencement

  1. These regulations shall be called the Sixth Amendment of the South African Passports and Travel Documents Regulations, 1996, and shall come into operation on 1 April 2000.