Department Of Transport Legislation, the Department of Transport aims to lead the development of efficient integrated transport systems by creating a framework of sustainable policies and regulations; and implementable models to support government strategies for economic, social and international development
Legislative and other Mandates
Aviation
- Carriage by Air Act No. 17 of 1946
- Aviation Act No. 74 of 1962
- Air Services Licensing Act, 1990 (Act 115 of 1990)
- Airports Company Act, 1993 (Act 44 of 1993)
- Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company Act, 1993(Act 45 of 1993)
- Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft Act, 1993 (Act 53 of 1993)
- International Air Services Act, 1993 (Act 60 of 1993)
- South African Civil Aviation Authority Levies Act,1998 (Act 41 of 1998)
- South African Airways Unallocatable Debt Act, 2000 (Act 7 of 2000)
- South African Maritime and Aeronautical Search and Rescue Act, 2002 (Act 44 of 2002)
- Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment Act, 2007 (Act 4 of 2007)
- Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act 13 of 2009)
Motor Vehicles
- Road Transportation Act, 1977 (Act 74 of 1977)
- Urban Transport Act, 1977 (Act 78 of 1977)
- Road Traffic Act, 1989 (Act 29 of 1989)
- Financial Supervision of the Road Accident Fund Act, 1993 (Act 8 of 1993)
- Road Accident Fund Act, 1996 (Act 56 of 1996)
- National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act 93 of 1996)
- Cross Border Road Transport Act, 1998 (Act 4 of 1998)
- Transport Appeal Tribunal Act, 1998 (Act 39 of 1998)
- National Land Transport Interim Arrangements Act, 1998 (Act 45 of 1998)
- Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act, 1998 (Act 46 of 1998)
- Road Traffic Laws Rationalisation Act, 1998 (Act 47 of 1998)
- Road Accident Fund Commission Act, 1998 (Act 71 of 1998)
- Road Traffic Management Corporation Act, 1999 (Act 20 of 1999)
- National Land Transport Transition Act, 2000 (Act 22 of 2000)
- National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of 2009)
Railways and Harbours
- Railway Purchase Act,1971 (Act 25 of 1971)
- Railway and Harbours Purchase Act,1977(Act 47 of 1977)
- Railway Construction Act,1985 (Act 75 of 1985)
- Second Railway Construction Act,1985 (Act 94 of 1985)
- South African Transport Services Conditions and Service Act,1988 (Act 41 of 1998)
- Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Act, 1989 (Act 9 of 1989)
- National Railway Safety Regulator Act, 2002 (Act 16 of 2002) as amended
- National Ports Act, 2005 (Act 12 of 2005)
Roads
- Advertising an Roads and Ribbon Development Act, 1940 (Act 21 of 1940)
- National Roads Act, 1972 (Act 54 of 1971)
- National Road Safety Act, 1972 (Act 9 of 1972)
- South African Roads Board Act, 1988 (Act 74bnof 1988)
- Transport Derugulation Act, 1988 (Act 80 of 1988)
- South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads, 1998 (Act 07 of 1998
Shipping
- Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act 57 of 1951)
- Marine Traffic Act, 1981 (Act 2 of 1981)
- Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1986 (Act 1 of 1986)
- Marine Pollution (Prevention of Pollution from Ships), 1986 (Act of 1986)
- Shipping and Civil Aviation Laws Rationalisation Act, 1994 (Act 28 of 1994)
- Wreck and Salvage Act, 1996 (Act 94 of 1996)
- South African Maritime Safety Act, 1998 (Act 5 of 1998)
- South African Maritime Saefty Authority Levies Act, 1998 (Act 6 of 1998)
- Ship Registration Act, 1998 (Act 58 of 1998)
- Sea Transport Documents Act, 2000 (Act 65 of 2000)