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NATIONAL LAND TRANSPORT AMENDMENT ACT, 2023, IN FORCE
- 12 September 2025
- New Legislation
- SA Legal Academy
The 2023 National Land Transport Amendment Act is now operational, having been commenced by presidential proclamation in the Government Gazette. The associated implementing regulations have also been gazetted.
Signed into law in June 2024, the Bill concerned was tabled in 2016 with the aim of correcting ‘a number of issues, mostly technical in nature’ apparently arising from the principal statute’s somewhat hasty implementation in anticipation of the 2010 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup. This is according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, which also drew attention to provisions giving practical effect to the 2007 public transport strategy and action plan – among other things by ‘cater(ing) for the introduction of bus rapid transit ... systems’.
The purpose of the principal statute itself is to ‘further’ a national land transport system transformation and restructuring process initiated by the 2000 National Land Transport Transition Act, which the 2009 Act repealed. This process included the ‘consolidation of transport functions’ at local government level.
Released in November 2024 for public comment, the implementing regulations have significant implications for:
- e-hailing services
- vehicles providing non-contracted public transport services without the necessary operating permits or licences, and
- the conversion of operating licences and permits issued under the repealed National Land Transport Transition Act.
Please click the links below for more information:
- presidential proclamation
- 2023 amendment Act
- 2009 Act
- regulations
- 2016 Bill’s ‘F’ version
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