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

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National Land Transport Regulations, 2009

Chapter 1 : National Public Transport Regulator

2. Application to NPTR relating to an operating licence for an interprovincial service

 

(1) An application to the NPTR for the granting, renewal, amendment or transfer of an operating licence for an interprovincial service other than a tourist transport service must be lodged by submitting the completed application form shown in Schedule 1 with the NPTR, together with the information and documents specified in the form and the application fee specified in Schedule 2.

 

(2) An application form may be submitted by hand either to an NPTR office or any PRE office, or by e-mail, post or fax to the NPTR, and if submitted by e-mail must include a scanned version of the required documents.

 

(3) The NPTR must issue a receipt to the person lodging the application where it is submitted by hand, or acknowledge receipt by e-mail, post or fax if the application was submitted by one of those methods, on the day of receipt or if received over a weekend or on a public holiday, on the next working day.

 

(4) The NPTR must reject an application where the application form is not fully and properly completed, or to which required documents have not been attached, or where the required fee has not been paid, and may require the applicant to submit the original of any document before accepting the application, if it suspects the validity or authenticity of the document.

 

(5) The NPTR must notify the following by e-mail or fax of an application received under subregulation (1):
(a) The PRE of every province in whose area passengers will be picked up or set down; and
(b) every planning authority in whose area passengers will be picked up or set down;

and those PREs and planning authorities must supply their comments or recommendations to the NPTR by e-mail or fax within the time specified in the notice, which may not be more than 30 days.

 

(6) Where the planning authority does not have an adequate ITP or is otherwise unable to respond in a meaningful manner, it must still submit a response stating the reasons why it is unable to respond.

 

(7) Where a PRE or planning authority fails to respond to such a notice within the specified time, the NPTR may proceed to process and decide upon the application without their input.

 

(8) A notification in terms of subregulation (5) must be in accordance with the form shown in Schedule 1 and contain particulars sufficient to enable the PRE or planning authority to submit a response based on relevant transport plans.

 

(9) The NPTR, PREs and MREs must conclude a written agreement in terms of section 26 of the Act to facilitate the submission of applications and communications between them.