National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act No. 5 of 2009)RegulationsSecond National Land Transport Regulations, 2025Chapter 3: Regulations on Conversion of Permits and Indefinite Period Operating Licences to Operating Licences required by the Act32. Legalisation of qualifying persons who do not hold permits or operating licences |
| (1) | Persons who have been operating public transport services without holding the required permit or operating licence and who qualify in terms of sub-regulation (4) may apply for operating licences to legalise the services they have been operating. |
| (2) | The regulatory entities must issue invitations by a notice or notices in newspapers circulating in the relevant area and by placing notices at their offices and at appropriate public transport ranks or terminals as well as on the website of the relevant entity, for persons who have been operating without permits or operating licences to apply for the required licences as special applications in terms of this regulation. |
| (3) | The invitations contemplated in sub-regulation (2) must be for a period of not more than 90 days for applicants to submit applications for operating licences. |
| (4) | Applicants for legalisation in terms of this regulation must provide proof to the regulatory entity that they have been providing the relevant public transport services for not less than 180 days prior to the application including details of the motor vehicle or vehicles that have been used to provide the services and of which they are registered as the owner or operator in terms of the National Road Traffic Act. |
| (5) | The information contemplated in regulation 31(5) may be provided as proof that the applicant has been operating as required by sub-regulation (4). |
| (6) | The application must be processed terms of the Act and the National Land Transport Regulations, 2009 for the type of service applied for and the Department may issue. practice notes or guidelines to guide regulatory entities in this regard. |
| (7) | In the case of a minibus taxi-type service, application for legalisation may only be made if the applicant is a member of an association that was provisionally or fully registered in terms of the Transition Act or provincial legislation, and only for routes that were so registered. |
| (8) | In considering applications for operating licences in terms of this regulation, the regulatory entity may consider the fact that a similar application by the applicant was previously refused by any regulatory entity or was blocked in any way in the past in terms of the special procedures for legalisation contemplated in section 41 of the Transition Act, or any similar process provided in provincial legislation. |