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The regulations, which were set in September this year, were due to become effective on December 1.
However, motorists, car dealers and transporters have been given a six months reprieve to reflect on the new statutory instrument.

The law requiring all motorists to carry triangle reflectors and fire extinguishers among other devices has also been deferred to the same period.
The regulations also compel motorists to use vehicles that are in good working order to minimise road carnage.

Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Develop-ment Secretary Mr Partson Mbiriri yesterday said Statutory Instrument 154 on Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use) Regulations remained unchanged except for the effective date.

“I have indicated in two meetings that when Statutory Instrument 154 of 2010 was initially discussed within the ministry, our intention had been to give the motoring public as much as 12 months’ notice.

“Regrettably, there were delays in having the Statutory Instrument gazetted resulting in an effective notice period of only three months,” said Mr Mbiriri in an interview yesterday.

“Accordingly, it is the ministry’s intention to defer the effective date of the Statutory Instrument by another six months so that the motoring public have reasonable time to relate to the Statutory Instrument. The provisions of the Statutory Instrument shall remain the same in toto,” he added.

Mr Mbiriri said the regulations had been served to lawyers in the ministry as well as the Attorney-General’s Office.

“We are not amending anything but merely deferring the effective date,” he said.

The regulations set December 2015 as the deadline when left-hand-drive vehicles would no longer be allowed and also ban the importation of vehicles that are more than five years old.
The postponement of the implementation deadline does not affect the December 2015 date set for the total ban.-The Herald