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64 of 2008
The National Road Traffic Amendment Act 64 of 2008 aims:
- to amend the National Road Traffic Act, 1996, so as:
- to insert certain definitions and to amend others; to prohibit the unauthorised use of an authorised officer's infrastructure number;
- to provide for visible display of nametags by traffic officers;
- to prohibit the impersonation of traffic officers and the wearing of a traffic officer's uniform without official written permission;
- to create new offences;
- to empower the Minister to prescribe training procedures and qualifications of persons appointed as national inspectors at driving licence testing centres and testing stations;
- to make new provision regarding the process by which driving licences are issued;
- to recognise documents relating to roadworthiness issued in a prescribed territory;
- to empower the Minister to prescribe the manner and form of accident reporting;
- to provide for circumstances when emergency vehicles may ignore road traffic signs and speed limits;
- to provide for liability of managers, agents and employees;
- to empower the MEC to set fees;
- to delete obsolete provisions; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
20 November 2010 (Gazette 33742 of 10 November 2010)