President Jacob Zuma has, in terms of Section 84 (2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, signed the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill into law.
The Act will facilitate the upgrading and development of the transport infrastructure and public transport in the Republic.
In effect the Act will provide more effectively for the collection of toll; to amend the Cross-Border Road Transport Act, 1998 (Act No. 4 of 1998), to empower the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency to collect toll on behalf of SANRAL; to amend the SANRAL Act by inserting a definition; to further provide for the differentiation in respect of the amount of toll that may be levied; to provide that the regulations made by the Minister must be published by notice in the Gazette; to provide for the Minister to make regulations relating to specified toll-related matters; to provide for the Minister to publish draft regulations in the Gazette calling for public comment; to provide for certain presumptions relating to the driving, operation and use of vehicles on a toll road and the use of electronic evidence to prove an alleged contravention of the SANRAL Act; to exclude the levying and collection of toll from the ambit of the National Credit Act, 2005; and to amend the contents of the SANRAL Act.
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