PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT

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PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT TRANSPORT LAWS AND RELATED MATTERS AMENDMENT BILL,2012 (SECTION 75 BILL) 1

Department of Transport BACKGROUND Department of Transport The South African National Roads Agency Limited (“SANRAL”) was established in terms of the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, 1998 (Act No. 7 of 1998) (“the SANRAL Act”). The SANRAL Act provides for the establishment of SANRAL to manage and control the Republic’s national roads system and take charge of the development, maintenance and rehabilitation of national roads within the framework of government policy 2

Department of Transport BACKGROUND (Cont) Department of Transport The Bill has been necessitated by the development of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (“GFIP”), as well as future plans for the development of road infrastructure in the Republic.Apart from the physical infrastructure, the GFIP will result in the operation of a road network that involves the utilisation of “intelligent” transport systems. An important component of the network is the electronic toll collection (“ETC”) system. The Bill is essential to enable the appropriate implementation of the ETC system. 3

Department of Transport BACKGROUND (Cont.) Department of Transport When the Act was promulgated, the ETC was not envisaged in its current form. The Act is not broad enough to cater for some aspects of the ETC The Bill will facilitate the collection of tolls and the implementation of the ETC system. These measures are essential to implement the GFIP, i.e. to upgrade transport infrastructure and public transport in the Gauteng Province and beyond, as well as other proposed projects. 4

Department of Transport OBJECTS OF THE BILL Department of Transport The Bill seeks to provide more effectively for the collection of toll; to amend the Cross-Border Road Transport Act, 1998 (Act No. 4 of 1998), to empower the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency to collect toll on behalf of the SANRAL; to amend the SANRAL Act by inserting a definition; to further provide for the differentiation in respect of the amount of toll that may be levied; to provide that the regulations made by the Minister must be published by notice in the Gazette; to provide for the Minister to also make regulations relating to specified toll related matters; 5

Department of Transport OBJECTS OF THE BILL (Cont.) Department of Transport To provide for the Minister to publish draft regulations in the Gazette calling for public comment; to provide for certain presumptions relating to the driving, operation and use of vehicle on a toll road and the use of electronic evidence to prove an alleged contravention of the SANRAL Act; to exclude the levying and collection of toll from the ambit of the National Credit Act, 2005; and to amend the contents of the SANRAL Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith. 6

Department of Transport DISCUSSION OF BILL Department of Transport Clause 1 seeks to amend section 4 of the Cross-Border Road Transport Act by empowering the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency to collect toll on behalf of SANRAL. Clause 2 seeks to insert the definition of “owner” in order for the owner of a vehicle to be responsible for the payment of toll. Clause 3 seeks to amend section 27(3)(b) of the SANRAL Act to provide a means of differentiating the amount of toll payable according to whether the toll is pre-paid depending on the use of an e-tag or some other device as compared with identification through licence number recognition 7

DISCUSSION OF BILL (Cont.) Department of Transport Clause 4 seeks to provide for the Minister to publish regulations by notice in the Gazette; to provide for the Minister to also make regulations relating to specified toll related matters; and to provide for the Minister to publish a draft of the proposed regulations in the Gazette calling for public comment. Clause 5 seeks to insert section 59A(3) in the SANRAL Act to provide for a presumption that any electronic evidence must be deemed to be correct in the absence of evidence to the contrary. This aims to facilitate law enforcement and assist in the prosecution relating to the non-payment of tolls.   8

DISCUSSION OF BILL (Cont.) Department of Transport Clause 6 seeks to amend the heading of section 60 of the SANRAL Act and provide for the exclusion of the SANRAL Act from the ambit of the National Credit Act, 2005 (Act No. 34 of 2005), in relation to the levying and collection of toll. Clause 7 provides for the amendment of the Contents of the Act to reflect the insertion of section 59A. Clause 8 provide for the short title and commencement of the Act. 9

CONSULTATION Department of Transport A draft amendment Bill was published in Gazette No. 31715 on 19 December 2008. Two draft Bills providing for transport laws and related matters which also included similar amendments to some of the amendment in the Bill were published in Gazette No. 33027 and Gazette No. 33028 on 15 March 2010. 10

CONSULTATION (Cont.) Department of Transport The Bill was also circulated for inputs to the Shareholders Committee of the Road Traffic Management Corporation. Comments were received from the following institutions: (a) Public Entity Oversight and Border Control; (b) South African Chamber of Commerce; (c) South African Tourism Service Association; (d) The South African Police Service; (e) The Cross-Border Road Transport Agency; (f) The Road Traffic Management Corporation; and The National Treasury The Bill was developed and finalised by the Department of Transport, in consultation with the National Treasury. 11

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS Department of Transport The Bill is vitally necessary to enable the collection of tolls for the GFIP. A lack of appropriate legislative authority to collect tolls would place the entire project at risk. The non-collection of tolls may impact negatively on the ability of the other State Owned Enterprises to raise capital for their infrastructure programmes and thus the need for the Bill must also be seen in the context of Government’s plans to fund its envisaged infrastructure programme. 12

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS (Cont.) Department of Transport SANRAL has issued bonds to fund the project of R24 billion (initial capital costs amounting to approximately R20,6 billion plus capitalised interest amounting to approximately R3,4 billion) that need to be repaid from toll revenue. Failure to collect tolls and repay the bonds would have very serious financial implications for SANRAL and also for National Government, which provided a guarantee in respect of most of the SANRAL bonds. 13

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS (Cont.) Department of Transport The financial consequences of ineffective collection of tolls to SANRAL and Government, due to the guarantee, would be both reputational and costly. Inability to collect revenue would damage the credit reputation amongst investors, who may price the bonds higher to cover this risk or sell the bonds. This in turn would have a negative impact on both SANRAL and possibly the governments’ credit ratings. Furthermore, the inability to collect the toll at predicted levels would result in lower revenue available to service debt and force further debt to be incurred to fund the shortfall. This would be costly in terms of interest paid as well as the credit reputational impact explained earlier. 14

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS (Cont.) Department of Transport The financial implications for the overall project also include future maintenance costs, road rehabilitation and operational costs, servicing of debt (interest) and other toll related costs. Therefore, ineffective toll collection would result in these costs to be funded from other Government resources in the future and thereby reducing Government’s ability to meet its disparate demands. 15

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS (Cont.) Department of Transport 16

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE Department of Transport The State Law Advisers and the Department of Transport are of the opinion that this Bill must be dealt with in accordance with the procedure established by section 75 of the Constitution since it contains no provision to which the procedure set out in section 74 of the Constitution applies Furthermore, the State Law Advisers are of the opinion that it is not necessary to refer this Bill to the National House of Traditional Leaders in terms of section 18(1)(a) of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act, 2003 (Act No. 41 of 2003, since it does not contain provisions pertaining to customary law or customs of traditional communities. 17

REQUEST We request the Portfolio Committee to consider and approve the Bill. Department of Transport 18

Department of Transport THANK YOU   19