Immigration Act, 2002 (Act No. 13 of 2002)Temporary Residence10B. Transit visas |
| (1) | Subject to subsection (4)(a), no person, other than a citizen or permanent resident, who is proceeding from a pace outside the Republic to a destination outside the Republic, shall travel through the Republic, unless he or she is in possession of a transit visa issued for that purpose in terms of subsection (2). |
| (2) | The Minister may, on the terms and conditions that he or she may impose, authorize the issue of a transit visa to any person. |
| (3) | Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or who, while traveling through the Republic as contemplated in subsection (1), fails on demand by an immigration officer to produce a transit visa issued by him or her under subsection (2), or any holder of any such transit visa who contravenes any terms and conditions of that visa— |
| (a) | shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years; and |
| (b) | may be dealt with as an illegal foreigner, whether or not that person has been convicted or sentenced as contemplated in paragraph (a). |
| (4) | The Minister may— |
| (a) | Exempt any person or category of persons from this section; |
| (b) | Exclude any person belonging to a category of persons contemplated in paragraph (a) from any exemption granted to that category; and |
| (c) | Withdraw any exemption granted under paragraph (a) to any category of persons or to any person and, in the case of a person, whether or not he or she was exempted as an individual or as a member of a category of persons. |