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8 of 1983
The Road Transportation Amendment Act 8 of 1983 intends:
- to amend the Road Transportation Act, 1977, so as
- to delete a certain expression and further define or replace certain expressions;
- to amend the provisions relating to the conveyance of persons and goods deemed not to be road tranportation;
- to extend the general powers of the Minister of Transport Affairs;
- to amend the provisions relating to the appointment of members of local road transportation boards and to validate certain such appointments;
- to grant to the chairman of a local road transportation' board a casting vote in certain circumstances;
- to extend the provisions relating to an appeal to the National Transport Commission;
- to prohibit the grant of a public or private permit in respect of a motor vehicle with regard to which such a permit has already been granted to some other person;
- to further regulate the replacement of a motor vehicle in respect of which a permit has been grant ed; to extend the provisions relating to the grant of temporary permits;
- to provide for the furnishing of a copy of a permit to an interested person;
- to further define the power of the National Transport Commission or a local road transportation board to withdraw, suspend or vary a permit;
- to extend the provisions relating to the compensation payable where a railway service is established;
- to empower the National Transport Commission or a local road transportation board in certain circumstances to require a person applying for a permit or subinitting representations to pay a certain amount before the application or representations with be considered;
- to further regulate the surrender and production of permits, the registration of persons engaged in road transportation and the records to be kept by them;
- to create certain new offences and increase the penalties for certain of fences;
- to further define the powers of the National Transport Commission or a local road transportation board in the case of a second or subsequent conviction of certain persons;
- to extend the· powers of the State President; and
- to extend the provisions relating to the entering into of an agreement with the government of any country or territory; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
22 April 1983 (Gazette 8666 of 22 April 1983)
