National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act No. 5 of 2009)RegulationsSecond National Land Transport Regulations, 2025Chapter 2: Regulations on Electronic-Hailing Services11. Definitions for Chapter 2 |
In this Chapter of these regulations, unless the context indicates otherwise, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act or in regulation 1, has the same meaning, and the following words and expressions have the meanings assigned to them:
"agreement" or "e-hailing service agreement"
means the agreement between an operator and the e-hailing platform provider contemplated in regulation 18;
"app" or "application"
means a technology-enabled application contemplated in section 66A(1)(a) of the Act;
means data message as defined in the ECTA;
means the Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005);
means the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 (Act No. 25 of 2002);
"e-hailing platform provider" or "platform provider"
means a person who provides the application or any technology that is designed or used in enabling the e-hailing public transport service to be provided, including any or all of the value chain elements listed in regulation 15;
means equipment as defined in the Type Approval Regulations, 2013;
means an identity card as defined in the Identification Act, 1997 (Act No. 68 of 1997);
means a person who is a holder of an operating licence that entitles operation of e-hailing services before the coming into force of section 66A of the Act, and after the coming into force of section 66A, subject to regulation 12, an e-hailing service operating licence issued in accordance with section 66A of the Act read with these regulations;
means the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, 2002 (Act No.70 of 2002);
means the Type Approval Regulations developed in terms of section 4(1) read with section 35 of the ECA promulgated under Notice 871 in Government Gazette 36785 of 26 August 2013, or its successor, and
means a person who orders a ride for an e-hailing service or a person who uses a ride ordered and paid for by a third party registered as a user in an e-hailing platform.