The rush for in­spec­tion stick­ers led to a wind­fall of more than $10 mil­lion for Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT) ac­cord­ing to the draft es­ti­mates of rev­enue.

MOWT has es­ti­mat­ed that it would make $4.2 mil­lion from the sale of in­spec­tion stick­ers last year, in­stead, it made more than three times the amount.

Ac­cord­ing to the draft es­ti­mates of rev­enue the MOWT made $15.6 mil­lion last year from the sale of in­spec­tion tick­ets.

In 2018, $8 mil­lion was raised from the sale of in­spec­tion stick­ers.

These fig­ures co­in­cide with the rush by mo­torists to in­spect their ve­hi­cles last year fol­low­ing in­creased fines for non-com­pli­ance.

On Jan­u­ary 1 this year a fine of $5,000 came in­to ef­fect for ve­hi­cles miss­ing an in­spec­tion stick­er and valid cer­tifi­cate.

This dead­line came fol­low­ing a five-month mora­to­ri­um of­fered by Gov­ern­ment on Ju­ly 5 fol­low­ing a se­ries of com­plaints of over­crowd­ing at li­cens­ing of­fices.

Sec­tion 27(11) of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act (48:50) states: “(a) reg­is­tered own­er of a pri­vate mo­tor ve­hi­cle or mo­tor­cy­cle, pub­lic ser­vice mo­tor ve­hi­cle, rental car, goods ve­hi­cle, om­nibus or trail­er, who fails to pro­duce the ve­hi­cle for in­spec­tion or dri­ves the ve­hi­cle with­out ob­tain­ing an in­spec­tion stick­er and cer­tifi­cate in ac­cor­dance these reg­u­la­tions com­mits an of­fence and is li­able, on sum­ma­ry con­vic­tion, to a fine of $5,000”.

Pri­vate ve­hi­cles are to be in­spect­ed af­ter five years from the man­u­fac­ture date, not the reg­is­tra­tion date, while trans­port ve­hi­cles are to be in­spect­ed one year af­ter the date of li­cens­ing.

The MOWT ex­pects to raise $8 mil­lion from the sale of in­spec­tion stick­ers this fis­cal year ac­cord­ing to the draft es­ti­mates of rev­enue.