30Fees for registration, reductions in, refunds of etc.

30. Fees for registration, reductions in, refunds of etc.

(1) Where a certificate of registration has been issued by the Director General without the payment of a fee, or upon the payment of a reduced fee, by reason of specified conditions or of the circumstances applicable to the ownership, location or use of the vehicle, and those conditions are not observed or those circumstances are changed, or the vehicle is put to some other use, then, unless or until the fee that would otherwise have been payable, or the difference between that fee and the reduced fee, has been paid in respect of that vehicle a person who uses that vehicle contravenes the provisions of section 7.

(2) Where a certificate of registration is issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act and the fees paid in respect of that registration are subsequently found to be either in excess of or less than the fees which are properly payable in respect of the registration, the Director General —

(a) shall forthwith upon demand refund the amount of the excess to the person to whom the certificate of registration was issued;

(b) may recover the deficiency in a court of competent jurisdiction from the person to whom the certificate of registration was issued, if that person fails to pay the deficiency to the Director General within 7 days after the amount of the deficiency has been demanded in writing from him.

[Section 30 amended: No. 106 of 1981 s. 34; No. 76 of 1996 s. 27.]