46. Power to demand documents
(1) Any authorized officer or police officer may require the owner of any vehicle to produce to him any document issued under this Act.
(2) If the owner of a vehicle is unable to produce a document referred to in subsection (1) on demand, he shall, within seven days of being required to do so, produce such document:
(a) if such demand was made by a police officer or inspecting officer, at a police station; or
(b) in any other case, to the registering officer for the area in which the vehicle is ordinarily kept at night; and explain to the police officer in charge or to the registering officer, as the case may be, that the document is produced in compliance with the demand of an authorized officer or police officer and shall name the place where, and the date and time when, the demand was made.
(2a) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level five.
[subsection inserted by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
(3) It shall be the duty of the police officer in charge of the police station or other person to whom the document is produced forthwith to notify the person who made the demand that it has been complied with and to issue to the owner a receipt in such form and containing such particulars as may be prescribed.
(4) In any prosecution under subsection (2a), it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the accused did not produce the document as aforesaid.
[section amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
47. Furnishing evidence as to mass of motor vehicle
(1) The owner of a motor vehicle or a dealer shall, if so required by an authorized officer or police officer, furnish such evidence as may be reasonably available to or obtained by him in regard to the mass of a motor vehicle.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level three.
[subsection inserted by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
48. Furnishing evidence as to engine capacity of motor
(1) The owner of a cycle which has a motor attached thereto or permanently forming part thereof shall, if so required by an authorized officer or police officer, furnish such evidence as may be reasonably available to or obtainable by him in regard to the engine capacity of such motor.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) and liable to a fine not exceeding level three.
[subsection inserted by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
49. Records to be accepted as evidence
(1) Any extract from a record or any written statement based on a record kept in terms of this Act shall, if it purports to be certified by the officer having custody or control of such record, to be a true extract or a correct statement, as the case may be, be admissible, on production by any person, as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.
(2) Any document issued in terms of this Act shall be admissible in any court, on production by any person, as prima facie proof of the facts therein stated.
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[section repealed by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
51. Duplicate documents
(1) If any licence, temporary licence, exemption certificate, temporary identification card, garage licence or other document issued under this Act is lost or destroyed or any essential particulars thereon have been defaced or if the document is dilapidated, on application by the holder thereof to the registering officer who issued such document, together with any fee imposed by or under this Act in respect thereof, the registering officer shall issue the appropriate duplicate document.
(2) If any registration book issued under this Act is lost or destroyed or any essential particulars thereon have been defaced or if the document is dilapidated or lacks space for essential particulars, on application by the holder thereof to a registering officer, together with the prescribed fee for the benefit of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the registering officer shall issue a duplicate registration book:
Provided that, when there is no space available in a registration book for further essential particulars, no fee shall be charged for the issue of a duplicate.
52. Regulations
(1) The Minister may by regulation prescribe all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which, in his opinion, are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) Regulations in terms of subsection (1) may provide for:
(a) the fees for permitting or conducting a search of any register kept in terms of this Act, or for supplying an extract from any such register;
(b) penalties for contravention of the regulations, but no such penalty shall exceed a fine of level three.
[subsection substituted by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001]
53. Designation of parking supervisor as authorized officer
A municipal council may designate a parking supervisor appointed in terms of section 142 of the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] to be an authorized officer for the purposes of this Act.
54. Administrative fee for collection of fees
Where any fees payable in terms of this Act for the benefit of the Road Fund are collected by a registering officer not employed by the Road Administration, there may be paid to such person as the Road Administration may determine in respect of such collection, such administrative fee as may be fixed by the Road Administration, and for that purpose the registering officer may, before paying the collected fees to the Road Fund, deduct therefrom the amount of the administrative fee and pay it to the person determined by the Road Administration.
[section substituted by section 69 of Act 6 of 2001]
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[section repealed by section 69 of Act 6 of 2001]