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8 of 2024
The National Road Traffic Amendment Act 8 of 2024 intends:
- to amend the National Road Traffic Act, 1996, so as to
- insert new definitions and to amend others;
- to provide for the suspension and cancellation of the registration of an examiner for driving licences or an examiner of vehicles, if such person has been convicted of an offence listed in the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), or has a direct or indirect conflict of interest;
- to provide for the registration and grading of training centres;
- to further provide for the registration of manufacturers, builders, body builders, importers and manufacturers of number plates, including manufacturers of reflective sheeting for number plates, suppliers of blank number plates, suppliers of reflective sheeting for number plates, embossers of number plates, weighbridge facilities, manufacturers of microdots, suppliers of microdots and microdot fitment centres; to extend the right to appeal to a manufacturer of blank number plates, manufacturer of reflective sheeting for number plates, supplier of blank number plates, supplier of reflective sheeting for number plates, embosser of number plates, weighbridge facility, manufacturer of microdots, supplier of microdots and microdot fitment centres;
- to require a provincial department responsible for transport or local authority to register a driving licence testing centre before operating as a driving licence testing centre;
- to further provide for the appointment of inspectorate of manufacturers, builders, body builders, importers, including inspectorates of number plates, microdots and weighbridge facilities;
- to prohibit the wilful or negligent issuing of a learner’s licence or authorising the issue of a learner’s licence, endorsing or failure to endorse a learner’s licence, or to produce, print or manufacture any document similar to a learner’s licence, contrary to Chapter IV of the National Road Traffic Act, 1996;
- to prohibit the use of unauthorised aid during a test for a learner’s licence or a driving licence test, and the disqualification thereof;
- to provide for the registration and grading of driving school instructors;
- to provide for the registration and grading of driving schools;
- to regulate further on international driving permits and foreign driving licence and permits; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
To be proclaimed
