National Roads General Amendment Act

1. Section 9 of the National Roads Act, 1971, is hereby amended- (a) by the substitution in subsection (3) for paragraph (c) of the following paragraph: (c) the Board has invited, in the manner prescribed by regulation, **persons residing or carrying on business within a radius of 20 kilometres from any proposed toll gate, to make such representations to it as they may wish to make in regard thereto** <<interested parties to make written representations to it, which may include representations on the position of the toll gate,>> and has considered such representations, if any;"; (b) by the addition to subsection (3) of the following paragraph: <<(d) the Board has in its consultation with any local authority and in its invitation contemplated in paragraph (c) given an indication of the approximate position of the proposed toll gate.>>"; and (c) by the insertion after subsection (3) of the following subsection: <<"(3A) The Board may, after a national road or any portion>> thereof has been declared as a toll road, give interested parties, including any local authority contemplated in subsection (3)(b), the opportunity of submitting further written representations regarding the position of a toll gate on such road, and shall not take a final decision regarding the position of the toll gate in question before considering any such further representations received as well as the representations contemplated in subsection Amendment of section 8 of Act 74 of 1988

2. Section 8 of the South African Roads Board Act, 1988, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (c) of the following paragraph: (c) in exercising its powers and performing its functions and duties also take into consideration the **effect which the erection of any toll gate as contemplated in section 9 of the National Roads Act, 1971, will have on the transport of persons residing within a radius of 20 kilometres from such toll gate** <<representations contemplated in section 9(3)(c) and (3A) of the National Roads Act, 1971.".>> Validation of declaration of certain roads as toll roads

3. Any national road or any portion thereof purporting to have been declared as a toll road in terms of section 9 of the National Roads Act, 1971 (Act No. 54 of 1971), before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been validly so declared in accordance with the provisions of that section and section 8(c) of the South African Roads Board Act, 1988 (Act No. 74 of 1988). Short title

4. This Act shall be called the National Roads General Amendment Act, 1994.