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

Chapter 1 : General Provisions

2. Purpose and scope of Act
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The purpose of this Act is—

(a)to further the process of transformation and restructuring the national land transport system initiated by the Transition Act;
(b)to give effect to national policy;
(c)to prescribe national principles, requirements, guidelines, frameworks and national norms and standards that must be applied uniformly in the provinces and other matters contemplated in section 146(2) of the Constitution; and
(d)to consolidate land transport functions and locate them in the appropriate sphere of government.