Last day to comment on plans for total driver booze ban

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The new law will make it illegal to have even a sip of alcohol before getting behind the wheel, along with a number of other changes which will directly impact motorists, who have until today to submit their comments.

Wednesday is the last day for motorists or other concerned parties to voice their opinion on a series of changes to the National Road Traffic Act of 1996 which are about to be instituted, in the form of theMost controversially among these is the total ban on alcohol for drivers, meaning even half a beer would be enough to get you in trouble with the law if you were to get behind the wheel afterward.

There are a number of changes which will directly impact motorists. Here are some highlights of the bill:Clarity on reissuing surrendered driver’s licences;And preventing the use of authorised aid during a learner’s or driver’s licence test.How much alcohol is now legal? “No person shall on a public road drive a vehicle or occupy the driver’s seat of a motor vehicle the engine of which is running while there is any concentration of alcohol in any specimen taken from any part of his or her body,” the bill reads.

This includes blank number plate manufacturers and suppliers, those that make number plate reflective sheeting, manufacturers that emboss or sell number plates, and those that manufacture or supply microdots.

 

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