Agency takes over all road roles from KRA
What you need to know:
- This implies that anyone applying for motor vehicle registration and or licensing of public transport routes will visit NTSA office and not Times Tower.
- The transport authority now takes over a total of nine functions as part of the government efforts to streamline business in the transport industry.
- Among the roles are issuance of duplicate log books and driving licence, transfer of motor vehicle ownership, licensing of motor vehicle dealers besides issuing of permits to drivers and conductors.
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has taken over all road transport functions that were previously handled by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
This implies that anyone seeking to register a motor vehicle or seeking a license for a public transport route will go to the NTSA office and not Times Tower.
In a joint newspaper notice on Friday, the two state agencies said NTSA will take over all the functions that were under KRA’s road transport department.
The process started on July 1.
The transport authority now takes over a total of nine functions as part of the government's efforts to streamline business in the transport industry.
VEHICLE DEALERS
Among the roles are issuing duplicate logbooks and driving licences, transferring motor vehicle ownership, licensing of motor vehicle dealers, besides issuing permits to drivers and conductors.
Other functions are issuing motor vehicles copy of records and licensing of driving schools and instructors.
KRA will, however, retain revenue-collection roles related to the above services, according to the notice published on Friday.
REVENUE COLLECTION
“Whereas the services have been moved to the NTSA according to the NTSA Act, revenue collection pertaining the same will remain with KRA,” read the notice.
The NTSA on Thursday said all vehicles that are more than four years old will be required to undergo mandatory annual inspections from next year as an effort to eliminate unroadworthy vehicles from Kenyan roads.
The NTSA was created by an Act of Parliament to oversee all transport business in the country.
It was signed into law in October 2012 by President Mwai Kibaki at the height of rampant road carnage in Kenya.
