National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)RegulationsNational Road Traffic Regulations, 2000Chapter III : Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles, and Registration of Manufacturers, Builders and Importers, and Manufacturers of Number PlatesPart III : General57. Penalties for late registration or licensing |
| (1) | If an application for the registration or licensing of a motor vehicle or licensing of a motor trade number is not made within the period determined in this Chapter, the title holder, owner or holder, as the case may be, shall pay a penalty to the appropriate registering authority, calculated at one tenth of the appropriate fees as determined by the MEC of the province concerned, for every month or part of a month during which the fees remain unpaid: Provided that such penalty shall not exceed the total amount of the appropriate fees. |
| (2) | The payment by the title holder or owner of a motor vehicle or holder of a motor trade number of the registration or licence fees or motor trade number licence fees, as the case may be, as well as the penalty referred to in subregulation (1), shall not relieve such title holder, owner or holder from prosecution for his or her failure to register or licence such motor vehicle or motor trade number timeously, nor shall such a prosecution relieve such title holder, owner or holder of the liability to pay the appropriate fees for registration or licensing, as well as the penalty referred to in subregulation (1). |
| (3) | The title holder or owner of a motor vehicle or the holder of a motor trade number who submits an application on the appropriate form to the appropriate registering authority for the registration or licensing of a motor vehicle or motor trade number, as the case may be, together with the appropriate fees within the time allowed, but fails to furnish any relevant document or particulars which may be required by the registering authority, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this regulation, not be liable for any penalty if such registering authority is satisfied that such failure was due to circumstances beyond the control of such title holder, owner or holder. |
| (4) | If the MEC concerned is satisfied that payment of registration or licence fees or motor trade number licence fees was delayed by a cause beyond the control or was not due to any fault on the part of the title holder or owner of a motor vehicle or holder of a motor trade number, he or she may direct that a penalty paid in respect of the registration or licensing, or so much thereof as the circumstances appear to him or her to justify, shall be refunded to such title holder, owner or holder. |
| (5) | Penalties or fees payable in respect of the registration or licensing of a motor vehicle or motor trade number, as the case may be, in terms of this Chapter, shall be a debt due to the MEC concerned and may be recovered in a competent court by a registering authority on behalf of the MEC concerned. |