Skip to main content

Urban and Cities Platform

of Latin America and the Caribbean

Preheader Links

  • New Urban Agenda
  • 2030 Agenda LAC

Preheader About

  • About
    • About this platform
  • Cities Virtual Forum
  • English
  • Español

menu

  • Countries & cities keyboard_arrow_down
    • Antigua and Barbuda keyboard_arrow_down
    • Argentina keyboard_arrow_down
      • Buenos Aires keyboard_arrow_down
    • Bahamas keyboard_arrow_down
    • Barbados keyboard_arrow_down
    • Belize keyboard_arrow_down
    • Bolivia keyboard_arrow_down
      • La Paz keyboard_arrow_down
    • Brazil keyboard_arrow_down
      • Brasilia keyboard_arrow_down
      • Río de Janeiro keyboard_arrow_down
      • Sao Paulo keyboard_arrow_down
    • Chile keyboard_arrow_down
      • Santiago keyboard_arrow_down
    • Colombia keyboard_arrow_down
      • Bogota keyboard_arrow_down
    • Costa Rica keyboard_arrow_down
      • San José keyboard_arrow_down
    • Cuba keyboard_arrow_down
      • Havana keyboard_arrow_down
    • Dominica keyboard_arrow_down
    • Ecuador keyboard_arrow_down
      • Guayaquil keyboard_arrow_down
      • Quito keyboard_arrow_down
    • El Salvador keyboard_arrow_down
    • Grenada keyboard_arrow_down
    • Guatemala keyboard_arrow_down
      • Guatemala City keyboard_arrow_down
    • Guyana keyboard_arrow_down
    • Haiti keyboard_arrow_down
    • Honduras keyboard_arrow_down
    • Jamaica keyboard_arrow_down
    • Mexico keyboard_arrow_down
      • Mexico City keyboard_arrow_down
    • Nicaragua keyboard_arrow_down
    • Panama keyboard_arrow_down
      • Panama City keyboard_arrow_down
    • Paraguay keyboard_arrow_down
    • Peru keyboard_arrow_down
      • Lima keyboard_arrow_down
    • Dominican Republic keyboard_arrow_down
      • Santo Domingo keyboard_arrow_down
    • Saint Kitts & Nevis keyboard_arrow_down
    • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines keyboard_arrow_down
    • Saint Lucia keyboard_arrow_down
    • Suriname keyboard_arrow_down
    • Trinidad and Tobago keyboard_arrow_down
    • Uruguay keyboard_arrow_down
      • Montevideo keyboard_arrow_down
    • Venezuela keyboard_arrow_down
      • Caracas keyboard_arrow_down
  • Global agendas keyboard_arrow_down
    • Sustainable Development Goals keyboard_arrow_down
    • New Urban Agenda keyboard_arrow_down
    • Regional Action Plan keyboard_arrow_down
  • Urban themes keyboard_arrow_down
    • Social cohesion and equity keyboard_arrow_down
    • Urban frameworks keyboard_arrow_down
    • Spatial development keyboard_arrow_down
    • Urban economy keyboard_arrow_down
    • Urban ecology & environment keyboard_arrow_down
    • Urban housing and basic services keyboard_arrow_down
  • Urban statistics keyboard_arrow_down
  • Instruments keyboard_arrow_down
    • Políticas Nacionales Urbanas keyboard_arrow_down
    • Financing Instruments keyboard_arrow_down
    • Planning Instruments keyboard_arrow_down
    • Legislative instruments keyboard_arrow_down
  • Resources keyboard_arrow_down
    • Publications and documents keyboard_arrow_down
    • Events and Learning Activities keyboard_arrow_down
    • Dissemination resources keyboard_arrow_down
    • News and Industry Newsletters keyboard_arrow_down
search

Breadcrumb

  1. Home

Tipo de Actividad

Temas Urbanos

The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica

Type of legal instrument
Law
Enforcement
Valid

( ! ) This content is available only in the original language.

This Act Repeals and Replace the Road Traffic Act; to establish the Island Traffic Authority as the authority for the regulation and control of traffic on roads; to improve road safety and transport efficiency and reduce the cost of administering road transport; to create new categories of driver’s licences; and for connected matters

Country
Jamaica
Territorial level
Level 1: National
Publication Date
1938-04-01
Link
The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica
Articles
Art. 12
The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica

1) There shall be charged, levied and paid to the  Licensing Authority of the area in which any motor vehicle or trailer is kept for use on a road, annual licence duties at the rates specified in the First Schedule. Such duties shall, save as may hereinafter be provided, be payable in a...

Read More
Action area 4: Urban economy and municipal finances
Art. 12
The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica

1) There shall be charged, levied and paid to the  Licensing Authority of the area in which any motor vehicle or trailer is kept for use on a road, annual licence duties at the rates specified in the First Schedule. Such duties shall, save as may hereinafter be provided, be payable in accordance with the provisions of section 13, and, subject thereto, be collectable recoverable and enforceable under the provisions of any Act for the time being in force regulating the payment, collection, Schedule, recovery and enforcement of taxes or duties: Provided that a licence to use a motor vehicle shall not be granted unless the applicant for the licence produces to the Licensing Authority a certificate of fitness in respect of the vehicle: 
Provided further that in the case of motor vehicles brought into Jamaica by persons making only a temporary stay in Jamaica or by dealers in motor vehicles, the regulations made under this Act may provide for the issue of licences and registration plates and for the kind of licences and registration plates to be issued to such persons, and as to the conditions under which such licences and registration plates shall be issued and the duty payable.
(2) The Minister responsible for finance may by order 
(a)revoke, increase, reduce or alter any licence duty specified in the First Schedule and may add any licence duty thereto; and
(b) revoke, increase, reduce or alter any fee imposed by subsection (3) of section 17, subsection (1) of section 18, subsection (5) of section 25, subsection (3) of section 66 or subsection (1) of section 70
(6) The duties charged under this section shall be paid upon a licence to be taken out by the owner or person in charge of the motor vehicle or trailer and which shall be issued and be subject to such conditions and regulations as may be prescribed
(7) Every person applying for the first licence in respect of any motor vehicle or trailer under this section shall make application to the Licensing Authority of the area in which the motor vehicle or trailer is kept for use on a road, and shall make a declaration and furnish such particulars with respect to the motor vehicle, or trailer for which the licence is to be taken out, as may be prescribed. On the expiration of the period covered by the first or any subsequent licence a fresh licence shall be issued by the Licensing Authority in the name of the owner for the time being, upon appIication, production of a certificate of fitness and payment of the duty.
 

Action area 4: Urban economy and municipal finances
Art. 15
The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica

(1) All licence duties and fees paid or payable under this Act or the regulations thereunder, other than the proportion of licence duties on motor vehicles specified in subsections (2) and (3), shall be paid into or accrue to the Consolidated Fund (2) An amount equivalent to 66 % per ce...

Read More
Action area 4: Urban economy and municipal finances
Art. 15
The Road Traffic Act - Jamaica

(1) All licence duties and fees paid or payable under this Act or the regulations thereunder, other than the proportion of licence duties on motor vehicles specified in subsections (2) and (3), shall be paid into or accrue to the Consolidated Fund
(2) An amount equivalent to 66 % per cent of licence duties on motor vehicles shall be paid into and accrue to the Parochial Revenue Fund established under the Parochial Rates and Finance Act
(3) An amount equivalent to 33 % per cent of licence duties on motor vehicles shall be paid into or accrue to the Road Maintenance Fund established under the Road Maintenance Fund Act. 
 

Action area 4: Urban economy and municipal finances

Reciba las novedades de la Plataforma Urbana y de Ciudades por correo electrónico

Subscribe

Síguenos en

Strategic Partners

Euroclima Coop Alemana
© ECLAC - United Nations Terms and conditions Contact