National Road Traffic Amendment Act 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)