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Transport Appeal Tribunal Act, 1998 (Act No. 39 of 1998)

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Transport Appeal Tribunal Regulations, 2026

17. Fees

 

(1) The Appeal Lodging fees as prescribed in the Act are in respect of each operating license or permit appealed against or in dispute.

 

(2) The appeal fees contemplated in section 11 of the Act are prescribed in Annexure 2.

 

(3) Where the Tribunal:
(a) dismisses an appeal in terms of section 12(1)(a) of the Act, the appeal fee will be forfeited;
(b) upholds an appeal in terms of section 12(1)(b) of the Act, the appeal fee or any part thereof as decided by the Tribunal must be refunded to the appellant;
(c) substitutes any other act, direction or decision which the entity or the Regulatory Committee, as the case may be, could have performed or given in terms of Section 12 (1)(b)(i); the appeal fee must be refunded to the Appellant.
(d) refer back the matter which gave rise the appeal to the entity or the Regulatory Committee, as the case may be for reconsideration by the Tribunal in terms of section 12(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, the appeal fee must be refunded to the Appellant.
(e) partially upholds an appeal in terms of section 12(1)(c) of the Act, the appeal fee or any part thereof, may be refunded to the appellant at the discretion of the Tribunal.

 

(4) Where the chairperson of the Tribunal refuses an application for condonation of the late filing of an appeal in terms of section 13(a) of the Act, the appeal fee must be refunded to the appellant.

 

(5) Any person summonsed in terms of section 14(1)(b) of the Act to appear before the Tribunal in order to give evidence or to produce a book, plan or other document or object must be paid the witness fees that are paid to any witness attending or summonsed to give evidence in a civil case before a magistrate's court, subject to regulation (8).

 

(6) No witness fees are payable to a state employee who attends a hearing in the course of his or her duties.