‘Chapas’ forced to issue tickets from August – Mozambique

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‘Chapas’ forced to issue tickets from August – Mozambique

9:59 CAT | 13 Jun 2019

Photo: A Verdade

Mozambique’s new Motor Vehicle Transport Regulations stipulate that all carriers, including the “Chapa 100”, must, from August this year, issue tickets or passes on pain of a 7,000 metical fine.

The National Director of Transport and Security of the Ministry of Transport and Communications justified the measure, which covers urban, inter-provincial and international transport, with the need for “some kind of contract between the transported and the transported”.

According to number 1 of article 103 of the regulations entering into force in mid-August: “In all carriers, tickets or individual passes that must be kept during the trip and presented whenever requested by the dealer’s employees or inspection agents.”

Under this legal provision, “In inter-provincial and international carriers, if the ticket is not used on the trip for which it was purchased, it may be re-validated for a new trip, to be carried out within 30 days from the date of issue upon payment of an additional fee to be fixed in the concession contract”.

Tickets must be purchased before the time of departure or before the end of the journey, and must include, in addition to the name and contact details of the concessionaire company, the date of travel, period of validity, route, price and ticket number, and, in inter-provincial and international carriers tickets, the name of the passenger.

As Cláudio Zunguze, National Director of Transport and Security of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, told @Verdade: “Our regulations are extensive. All 15 or 30-seat transport must have some kind of contract between the transporter and the transported, be it urban, inter-provincial or international. ”

“In the case of open vans, adapted in accordance with the new conditions, it is important to establish some form of contract, be it a ticket or a pass – any indication of contract between the transported and the transporter is a beginning. But because of the circumstances, and not only the reality we face in urban areas, we need to realise that, in the countryside, this may be difficult to achieve. But it would be good if they had some form of contract with the passengers,” Zunguze said.

Under the Motor Vehicle Transport Regulations, “failure to issue a ticket or pass is punishable by a fine of 7,000 meticais”.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade