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16 of 1995
The Transport General Amendment Act 16 of 1995 intends:
- to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1951, so as
- to insert four definitions and to replace one;
- to further regulate the registration of ships;
- to make other provision for the determining in certain circumstances of the value of gold franc in South African currency;
- to replace certain obsolete expressions;
- to provide for the control over and the use of dynamicaUy supported craft;
- to regulate the ratification of or accession to and incorporation of the international conventions relating to merchant shipping in accordance with the Constitution;
- to provide for the incorporation by the Minister of Transport of international shipping standards in the regulations; and
- to give effect to amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978;
- to amend the Aviation Act, 1962 [repealed in 2010], so as to empower the said Minister to make regulations, for the purposes of that Act, regarding the designation of medical examiners, the certificates to be issued by such examiners and the designation of a body or institution to exercise control over aeromedical matters and standards;
- to amend the Road Traffic Act, 1989 [repealed in 2000], so as
- to insert three definitions and to replace three;
- to further regulate the use of the left side of public roads;
- to further rationalise driver's licence codes;
- to permit driver's licence testing centres to issue learners' licences only;
- to delete the cut-off date for the exchange of certain invalid drivers' licences;
- to further regulate procedures for the control of professional driving permits;
- to provide that the period of suspension of a driver's licence commences from the date of sentence; and
- to define operators of motor vehicles anew; and
- to amend the International Air Services Act, 1993, so as to replace an incorrect expression; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
- 5 July 1995 except Sections 12, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 (Gazette 16622 of 25 August 1995)
- 1 September 1995, Sections 12 and 21 to 26 (Gazette 16622 of 25 August 1995)
- 1 March 1998, Sections 17 and 18 (Gazette 18692 of 23 February 1998)
