Powers of employees contemplated in regulation 2(2)(a)
3. An employee appointed in terms of regulation 2{2)(a) may, subject to the Act or
any other law may-
(a) demand from any person immediately to produce a licence, operating licence
permit or any other document or authorisation authorising him or her to drive
or operate a motor vehicle, and to produce any other document or tag which
he or she is required to have in respect of any motor vehicle in terms of the
Act or these Regulations, or the regulations on the exemption from payment
of toll promulgated in terms of the Act, or any like document issued by a
competent authority outside the Republic, and question any person in relation to
any such tag, document or equipment;
(b) impound or confiscate any document or tag referred to in paragraph (a) which
appears to be or which that employee suspects to be invalid or which has
been or appears to have been unlawfully altered or defaced or which is being
put to unlawful use, and where any document or tag is so impounded, the
employee must issue a receipt in respect thereof to the person concerned;
(c) impound any licence, document or tag produced to him or her in terms of
paragraph (a) which in his or her opinion may afford evidence of a
contravention or evasion of any provision of the Act, and where any licence or
document is so impounded, must issue a receipt in respect thereof to the
person concerned;
(g) at any time enter any motor vehicle and inspect such vehicle and any
electronic device installed therein for the purpose of toll collection;
(h) question the driver of a vehicle as to whether required tolls have been paid;
(i) issue a receipt if any tag, document or equipment has been impounded or
confiscated under paragraph (b); and
(j) deliver such tag, document or equipment which has been impounded or
confiscated under that paragraph to a police officer to be dealt with in terms of
the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977).
(2) Where such an employee reasonably suspects that there are outstanding tolls
or other surcharges. fees, fines or penalties payable in respect of the Act in
respect of any vehicle, he or she must inform the driver of the vehicle that-
(a) all outstanding tolls and other amounts payable in terms of the Act in
respect of the vehicle must be paid;
(b) he or she must not continue to use the toll road if he or she does not
make arrangements to pay those tolls and other amounts; and
(c) if the person disputes such tolls or amounts, that employee has issued
to the person an invoice setting out the tolls and other amounts and
instructing such person to contact SANRAL to resolve the outstanding
tolls and amounts.
