(1) The prescribed recording fee shall be paid to the Director General for the grant or renewal of any licence for a vehicle (other than under Part IV), irrespective of whether the whole or any part of a vehicle licence fee is also payable for the grant or renewal of the licence.

(2) The prescribed transfer fee shall be paid to the Director General for effecting the transfer of any licence for a vehicle.

(3) Subject to any exemption, reduction, refund or deferral provided for in the regulations, the appropriate fee specified in Part III of the Second Schedule shall be paid to the Director General for granting or renewing any licence for a vehicle.

[(3a) - (16b) repealed]

(17) Where a vehicle licence has been issued by the Director General without the payment of a vehicle licence fee, or upon the payment of a reduced vehicle licence fee, subject to conditions specified in the licence or in this Act or subject to the ownership or use of the vehicle, under the provisions of this Act, and the conditions are not observed or the ownership is changed to that of some person who would not be entitled to a licence issued, or the vehicle is put to some use that would not occasion the licence to be issued without payment of a vehicle licence fee or at a reduced vehicle licence fee, then, unless, or until the vehicle licence fee, or the difference between the vehicle licence fee and the reduced vehicle licence fee, has been paid in respect of that vehicle licence, every person using that vehicle on a road contravenes the provisions of section 15.

(18) Where a vehicle licence is issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act and the fees paid in respect of the licence are subsequently found to be either in excess of or less than the fees which are properly payable in respect of the licence, the Director General ¾

(a) shall forthwith upon demand refund the amount of the excess to the person to whom the licence was issued;

(b) may recover the deficiency in a court of competent jurisdiction from the person to whom the licence was issued, if that person fails to pay the deficiency to the Director General within 7 days after the amount of the deficiency has been demanded in writing from him.

[Section 19 amended by No. 93 of 1975 s.5; No. 135 of 1976 s.2; No. 89 of 1978 s.4; No. 9 of 1979 s.6; No. 10 of 1979 s.3; No. 42 of 1980 s.3; No. 81 of 1980 s.3; No. 105 of 1981 s.19; No. 10 of 1982 s.28; No. 25 of 1982 s.12; No. 60 of 1982 s.3; No. 95 of 1984 s.2; No. 78 of 1986 s.5; No. 21 of 1995 s.6; No. 76 of 1996 s.20(3).]