The South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, 1998 (Act No. 7 of 1998)Chapter 3 : Functions, Powers and Responsibilities of Agency25. Main functions of Agency |
| (1) | The Agency, within the framework of government policy, is responsible for, and is hereby given power to perform, all strategic planning with regard to the South African national roads system, as well as the planning, design, construction, operation, management, control, maintenance and rehabilitation of national roads for the Republic, and is responsible for the financing of all those functions in accordance with its business and financial plan, so as to ensure that government’s goals and policy objectives concerning national roads are achieved, subject to section 32(3). |
| (2) | For the purposes of subsection (1)— |
| (a) | the Agency, on the incorporation date, will take over from the South African Roads Board the responsibility for all projects and work which, before that date, had been commenced in terms of the previous Act by the South African Roads Board in connection with the planning, design, construction, operation, management, control, maintenance and rehabilitation of a national road or the planning of a proposed national road, and which is still pending on that date; |
| (b) | the Agency, as from the incorporation date, will be competent to continue with and to carry out those projects and that work or to have them carried out subject to the provisions of this Act and any existing contracts and agreements concluded by the South African Roads Board with regard to the execution of the projects or the performance of the work. |
| (3) | Except in so far as this Act provides otherwise, the responsibility and capacity to perform the functions mentioned in subsection (1) in the Republic, are entrusted to the Agency only. |