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National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act No. 5 of 2009)

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National Land Transport Regulations, 2009

Chapter 3 : Municipal Regulatory Entities

12. Meetings of operating licence division of municipalities

 

(1) The members of the division of a MRE contemplated in section 17(1)(b) of the Act must meet often enough to enable them to process applications relating to operating licences within no more than 60 days of receipt of the application.

 

(2) The municipality must appoint a chairperson and deputy chairperson of such division from such members.

 

(3) The chairperson must preside at meetings, or failing the chairperson the deputy-chairperson.

 

(4) In the absence of the chairperson and deputy-chairperson, the persons present at the meeting must elect one of their number to chair the meeting.

 

(5) A quorum at those meetings will be 50 percent of the appointed members, and in the case of a deadlock the person presiding will have a deciding vote in addition to his or her normal vote.

 

(6) An act or decision at such a meeting will not be invalid because a casual vacancy existed in such division at the time or because a member who participated in the act or decision was disqualified at the time from being a member.

 

(7) Each such municipality must keep at its place of business a file for each operator to whom an operating licence has been issued, both electronic and in hard copy, containing a copy of every operating licence issued to that operator and allow any interested person to obtain a copy thereof on payment of the fee specified in Schedule 2.

 

(8) The records contemplated in subregulation (7) may be deleted or destroyed five years after an operating licence or permit has lapsed or been cancelled or withdrawn.