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Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Amendment Act,1966 (No. 16 of 1966)
Act
- to prohibit the leaving of certain articles or materials near certain roads and for that purpose
- to amend section 8 of and the long title to the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act, 1940.
Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly, of the Republic of South Mrica, as follows:-
(Afrikaans text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 15th February, 1966.)
Amendment of section 8 of Act 21 of 1940.
1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 8 of
the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act, 1940:
"Prohibition of depositing or leaving of certain articles or materials near certain roads.
8. (1) No person shall, within a distance of two hundred yards of the centre line of a declared road or a building restriction road or o f a main road, deposit or leave, outside an urban area, so as to be visible from that road, a disused vehicle or machine or a disused part of a vehicle or machine or any rubbish or other refuse, except in accordance with the permission in writing granted by the controlling authority concerned.
(2) When a vehicle which was involved in an accident, or any part thereof, is abandoned at or near the place where the accident occurred, and is not removed from that place within a period of twenty-one days as from the date on which the accident occurred, the person who last drove the vehicle and the owner thereof shall be deemed, for the purposes of subsection (1), to have deposited or to have left the vehicle or the said part thereof, at the said place.
(3) When any person has deposited or has left or is deemed to have deposited or to have left any object or substance in contravention of subsection (1), the controlling authority concerned may direct the said person to remove or destroy that object or substance and if he fails to comply with that direction, the controlling authority may cause the object or substance to be removed or destroyed and may recover from the said person the cost of the removal
or destruction.
(4) The preceding provisions of this section shall not apply to any object or material which has been or is being used for or in connection with farming, or to soil excavated in the course of alluvial digging: Provided that this subsection shall not permit the deposit or leaving of any article or material on a road.".
Amendment of long title to of Act 21 of 1940, as amended by section 9 of Act 16 of 1962.
2. The following long title is hereby substituted for the long title to the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act, 1940:
"To regulate the display of advertisements outside certain urban areas at places visible from public roads, and the depositing or leaving of disused machinery or refuse and the erection, construction or laying of structures and other things near certain public roads, and the access to certain land from such roads and to amend the National Roads Act, 1935.".
Short title.
3. This Act shall be called the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Amendment Act, 1966.
Commencement
24 February 1966
