Chairperson, perhaps I should just start off by saying my name is Ian Ollis and, no, I was not part of the Travelgate scam. [Laughter.]
In addressing this report under review ... [Interjections.] I normally do not speak about reports, because normally there are things that we agree on in the committee, hon member, and we just approve them here.
However, I felt the need to speak on this report for a very specific reason: It deals with traffic regulations.
My colleague, the hon Stuart Farrow, managed to get a concession in the Act which says that regulations promulgated by the Minister must be brought to this Parliament for us to consider them before they are finally gazetted.
A year ago from today, I discovered that three sets of regulations never came to this Parliament and I began asking questions about them. I wrote to the Minister, Minister Ndebele, who was suddenly removed from office and disappeared.
I then took it up with the following Minister, but we couldn't find these regulations.
Finally, I asked the chairperson of the committee and the staff where those three sets of regulations are, and we found one set. That is the set that is here before you today. The other two, one of which deals with traffic officers that are going to be used by the SA National Roads Agency Limited, Sanral, to chase after your granny if she doesn't pay her e-toll bill, we still do not have in this Parliament.
Two sets have disappeared. They were tabled by Minister Ndebele, they have never come to this Parliament and have never seen the light of day.
That is unacceptable. At least we have this set. Luckily we found it. Why? Because written into those regulations was a provision which would have made it almost impossible to sell second-hand car parts in the Republic of South Africa, as you have just heard from the hon chairperson. We had to ask the department to amend it.
Now we as Parliament have a role to play in looking in the Transport committee at regulations that are tabled under the national Act. We would like to play that role. So we support the committee report, because these regulations have been fixed by our committee. But we ask this Parliament: Can somebody please, through the administration, find out what happened to the other two sets of regulations, so that we can also see those and deal with them in our committee?