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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Regulations

Regulations issued in terms of Section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (COVID-19)

Chapter 3 : Adjusted Alert Level 4

28. Public transport

 

(1) For purposes of this regulation "long distance travel" is a trip of 200 km or more.

 

(2) The Cabinet member responsible for transport must, after consultation with the Cabinet members responsible for cooperative governance and traditional affairs, health, police, trade, industry and competition, and justice and correctional services, issue directions for the resumption of different modes of public transport to cater for the gradual return to work of people, in respect of—
(a) domestic air travel;
(b) rail,bus services,taxi serv ices;
(c) e-hailing services; and
(d) private vehicles.

 

(3) Bus and taxi services—
(a) may not carry more than 70 percent of the licensed capacity for long distance travel; and
(b) may carry 100 percent of the licensed capacity for any trip not regarded as long distance travel in terms of subregulation (1).

 

(4) A driver, owner or operator of public transport may not allow any member of the public who is not wearing a face mask, to board or be conveyed in a public transport owned or operated by him or her.

 

(5) The directions to be issued by the Cabinet member responsible for transport must set out the health protocols that must be adhered to and the steps to be followed for the limitation of the exposure of members of the public using public transport to COVID-19.

 

[Regulation 28 substituted by section 4 of Notice No. R. 565, GG44772, dated 27 June 2021]