Authority to monitor car importing

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The National, Monday May 11th, 2015

THE Transport Department will put in place policy guidelines to monitor the import of cars, Secretary Roy Mumu says.

He said there was a moratorium on new licences for used cars issued by the Land Transport Board in 2013. 

“There will be certain guidelines and directions issued to motor car dealers. All car dealers’ licences will expire on September 1 this year,” Mumu said.

“We are reconsidering those used car dealers’ licences to a certain extent and new car dealers.

“There will be complete transformation. Enough is enough. These are drastic issues we are considering.”

Mumu was speaking during a road safety seminar in Port Moresby last week. Mumu said last year the Government developed the National Road Traffic Authority.

“Right now when vehicles are registered, 50 per cent of it goes to concerted revenue and we don’t see it,” he said.

“The Road Safety Council only gets five per cent from the motor vehicle compulsory third party insurance which is about K2 million. That’s not enough to attend to those sections of the roads and carry out awareness.

“We are focusing on the four Es of road safety – education, enforcement engineering and emergency.”