NATIONAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 93 OF 1996 - Gauteng Online

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professional driving permits, shall be as prescribed.
(3) (a) Any document issued by a competent authority in any prescribed territory
and serving in that territory a purpose similar to that of a professional driving permit
shall, subject to the conditions thereof and to such conditions as may be prescribed, be
deemed to be a professional driving permit for the purposes of subsection (1).
(b) A public driving permit issued in terms of the Road Traffic Act, 1989 (Act 29
of 1989), or a road traffic law contemplated in paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996), shall, in
accordance with the conditions thereof but subject to this Act, be deemed to be a
professional driving permit for the purposes of this section for the period of validity of
that public driving permit.
[Para. (b) substituted by s. 5 (b) of Act 8 of 1998.]
33 Production of licence and permit to court
(1) If any person is charged with any offence in terms of this Act relating to the
driving of a motor vehicle or a failure to stop after or report an accident, he or she shall
produce every licence and permit of which he or she is the holder, or a duplicate thereof
issued in terms of this Act if he or she is not in possession of the original, to the court at
the time of the hearing of the charge.
(2) For the purposes of this section and sections 34 to 36, inclusive -
'licence' means a learner's or driving licence; and
'permit' means a professional driving permit.
(3) No person referred to in subsection (1) shall, without reasonable excuse,
refuse or fail to produce in terms of that subsection the licence and permit or duplicate so
referred to on request.
34 Court may issue order for suspension or cancellation of licence or permit or
disqualify person from obtaining licence or permit
(1) Subject to section 35, a court convicting a person of an offence in terms of this
Act, or of an offence at common law, relating to the driving of a motor vehicle may, in
addition to imposing a sentence, issue an order, if the person convicted is-
(a) the holder of a licence, or of a licence and permit, that such licence or
licence and permit be suspended for such period as the court may deem fit
or that such licence or licence and permit be cancelled, and any such
licence shall be dealt with as provided in subsection (3);
(b) the holder of a licence, or of a licence and permit, that such licence or
licence and permit be cancelled, and that the person convicted be
disqualified from obtaining a licence, or a licence and permit, for any class
of motor vehicle for such period as the court may deem fit, and any such
licence shall be dealt with as provid ed in subsection (3); or
(c) not the holder of a licence, or of a licence and permit, declaring him or her
to be disqualified from obtaining a licence, or a licence and permit, either
indefinitely or for such period as the court may deem fit.
(2) The making of an endorsement in terms of subsection (3) may be postponed
by the court issuing the order until any appeal against the conviction or sentence or both
has been disposed of.
(3) Where a court has issued an order under subsection (1) (a) or (b) the registrar
or clerk of the court shall, subject to subsection (2), in the case where the licence-