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National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)

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National Road Traffic Regulations, 2000

Chapter VI : Fitness of Vehicles

Part II : Equipment on or in respect of vehicles

150. Brakes on motor cycle or motor tricyle

 

No person shall operate on a public road a motor cycle or motor tricycle which is not equipped with two independent braking systems, one of which shall act on the front wheel or wheels and the other which shall act on the rear wheel or wheels and each such system shall have an efficiency at least equivalent to that specified for an emergency brake and when the two systems are applied simultaneously, the combined efficiency shall be at least equivalent to that specified for a service brake.

 

[Regulation 150 substituted by regulation 12 of Notice No. R. 589 of 2009]