NATIONAL ROADS AMENDMENT ACT

NO 100 OF 1992

[ASSENTED TO 18 JUNE, 1992][DATE OF 
COMMENCEMENT: 1 July, 1992]

(Unless otherwise indicated)

(English text signed by the State President)

ACT

To amend the National Roads Act, 1971, so as to insert, amend 
or delete certain definitions; to empower the Board to redeem 
certain loans; to regulate the construction of interprovincial 
bridges; to provide for the transfer of certain powers regarding 
national roads within townships to local authorities; to further 
regulate the expropriation of land; to further regulate the 
declaration of toll roads; to provide for the application of a 
rebuttable legal presumption in certain criminal proceedings; to 
further regulate trading on national roads; to increase fines; to 
further regulate the lodging of appeals; and to substitute certain 
obsolete expressions; and to provide for matters connected 
therewith.

1.   Amends section 1 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) substitutes the definition of 
“Administrator”; paragraph (b) substitutes the definition of 
“building restriction area”; paragraph (c) inserts the definition 
of “Board”; paragraph (d) deletes the definition of 
“commission”; paragraph (e) inserts the definition of 
“interprovincial bridge” and “interstate bridge”; paragraph ( f ) 
deletes the definition of “junction”; paragraph (g) substitutes 
the definition of “local authority”; paragraph (h) substitutes the 
definition of “officer”; paragraph (i) substitutes the definition of 
“point of intersection”; paragraph (j) substitutes the definition 
of “road traffic law”; paragraph (k) inserts the definition of “this 
Act”; paragraph (l) inserts the definition of “toll gate”; and 
paragraph (m) substitutes the definition of “toll road”.

2.   Amends section 2 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) substitutes subsection (3) (a) 
and (b); paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (3A); paragraph 
(c) substitutes subsection (8); and paragraph (d) substitutes 
subsection (9).

3.   Amends section 4 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, by substituting subsection (2).

4.   Amends section 2 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) deletes subsection (1) (aA); 
paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (1) (b) and (c); paragraph 
(c) inserts subsection (1) (cA); paragraph (d) substitutes 
subsection (1) ( f ); paragraph (e) substitutes subsection (1) (l); 
paragraph ( f ) substitutes subsection (1) (m); and paragraph (g) 
substitutes subsection (2).

5.   Amends section 6 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) inserts subsection (2A); and 
paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (3) (a).

6.   Amends section 8 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, by substituting subsection (1).

7.   Amends section 9 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) substitutes subsection (1) (a) 
and (b); paragraph (b) substitutes subsections (2), (3) and (4); 
paragraph (c) inserts subsection (4A); and paragraph (d) 
substitutes subsection (5) (date of commencement 1 October 
1992).

8.   Amends section 10 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, by substituting subsection (5).

9.   Amends section 15 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, as follows:—paragraph (a) substitutes subsection (1) 
(date of commencement 1 October 1992); and paragraph (b) 
substitutes the words preceding subsection (3) (a); and 
subsection (3) (a).

10.   Amends section 22 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, by substituting the expressions “R4 000” and “one year” 
for the expressions “two hundred rand” and “six months” 
respectively (date of commencement 1 October, 1992).

11.   Amends section 27 of the National Roads Act, No. 54 of 
1971, by adding subsection (3).

12.   Substitution for “commission” of “Board”.—The principal 
Act is hereby amended by the substitution for the word 
“commission”, wherever it occurs, of the word “Board”.

13.   Substitution of certain words and expressions.—The 
principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)by the substitution in sections 7 (3) and 15 (2) for the 
expression “Secretary for Plural Relations and Development” of 
the expression “Director-General: Regional and Land Affairs”; 
and

(b)by the substitution in section 19 (6) (a) for the word “both” 
of the words “all the”.

14.   Short title and commencement.—This Act shall be called 
the National Roads Amendment Act, 1992, and the provisions 
thereof shall come into operation on a date fixed by the State 
President by proclamation in the Gazette.