National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Preface

Part I – OBJECTIVES

1. Objectives

Part II – REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES

2. Application for registration of vehicles

3. Registration and assignment of number plates and identification marks

4. Change of vehicle category

5. Out of series special number registration

6. Transfer of out of series or fancy number plates

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Part III – LICENCES FOR VEHICLES

22. Issuance of licence

23. Power to refuse registration in certain cases

24. Appeal

25. Refund of portion of vehicle licence fee paid

26. Display of vehicle licence

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Part IV – SPECIAL TRADE LICENCE

30. Special trade licence

31. Trade identification number or mark

32. Appeals

Part V – ESTABLISHMENT AND REGULATION OF DRIVING SCHOOLS

33. Establishment and registration of driving schools

34. Instructor’s permit

35. Training instructors

Part VI – VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS

36. Vehicle Identification Number Plates

37. Display of number plates

38. Vehicle identification Tag

39. Vehicle identification number plate figures

40. Road charges

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Part VII – LEARNER’S PERMIT AND DRIVER’S LICENCE

42. Application for Learner’s Permit

43. Forged permit

44. Classes of licence

45. Application for a fresh drivers’ licence

46. Renewal of driver’s licence

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Part VIII – NTERNATIONAL CONVENTION PROVISIONS

75. Documents for vehicles taken for use outside Nigeria

76. Documents for drivers going outside Nigeria

77. International transit permits for visitors vehicles

78. Surrender of International Circulation Permit or International Transit permit

79. Register of permit

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Part IX – DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS REGISTRATION AND BADGES

83. Issuance of badges for drivers and conductors of stage carriage and omnibus

84. Registration of conductors

85. Exemption from the use of badges

86. Use of badges

87. Surrender of badge

Part X – TAXIS, STAGE CARRIAGES, OMNIBUSES AND MOTORCYCLES FOR HIRE

88. Conditions for licensing

89. Use and construction of taxis

90. Taxi roof light

91. Use and construction of stage carriages

92. Use and construction of omnibus

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Part XI – USE OF SCHOOL BUSES

109. Identification of school buses

110. Qualification for School bus driver and assistant school bus driver

111. Procedure for selecting a driver and an assistant driver of a school bus

112. School bus Operator’s Permit

113. Insurance cover for school bus and occupants

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Part XII – USE AND CONSTRUCTION

116. General conditions for use of motor vehicles

117. Overloading

118. Permit for abnormal or super-dimensional loads

119. Tyres, First Aid Boxes, Fire extinguishers, etc

120. Braking system

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Part XIII – SPEED LIMITS

152. Speed limit

153. Use of emergency vehicles

Part XIV – USE OF SIRENS

154. Persons authorised to use siren, flashers and beacons

155. Obstruction of vehicles using sirens, flashers and beacon light

Part XV – TRAFFIC SIGNS

156. Traffic signs, signals and notices on public roads

157. Destruction of traffic signs and signals

158. Persons exempted from obeying traffic signs and signal

Part XVI – TRAFFICATORS

159. Usage of trafficators

160. Compulsory usage of trafficators

Part XVII – RULES ON ROAD CROSSING

161. Rules of driving on public roads

162. Overtaking

Part XVIII – PARKING OF VEHICLES

163. Rules for stopping of vehicles on public roads, railway crossings, etc

164. Removal of vehicles for wrongful stopping

165. Vehicles approaching railway crossings

Part XIX – RULES OF DRIVING AND GENERAL DUTIES OF DRIVER OF VEHICLES OR PASSENGERS ON PUBLIC ROAD

166. Use of communication devices while driving

167. Driving a vehicle on a public road in a dangerous or reckless manner

168. Protruding or tailing loads

169. Preaching or hawking in passenger carrying commercial vehicles

Part XX – SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE DRIVING OF VEHICLES

170. Maximum hours of driving

Part XXI – HINDERING OR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC ON PUBLIC ROAD

171. Hindering or obstructing traffic on public road

Part XXII – DAMAGE TO PUBLIC ROAD

172. Damage to road and road fittings

Part XXIII – PEDESTRIANS AND PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

173. Compliance with traffic signals at Pedestrians crossings

Part XXIV – DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUGS

174. Driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor

175. Prescribed alcohol limit

176. Penalty for refusal to be subjected to tests

Part XXV – REMOVAL OF VEHICLES

177. Removal of vehicles from public roads

178. Custody fees

179. Provisions relating to removed Vehicles Park

180. Procedure for reclaiming removed vehicles

181. Certificate of release of removed vehicle

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Part XXVI – SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXPRESSWAY

183. Permissible dimensions and weight for vehicles on the expressway

184. Prohibition of animals on the expressway

185. Prohibition of motorcycles

186. Agricultural machines on expressway

187. Loading, off-loading or stoppage on the expressway

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Part XXVII – REPORTING OF ROAD CRASHES

191. Reporting of road crashes

192. Procedure for investigating and recording road crashes

193. Duty of officers at the scene of crash

Part XXVIII – USE OF MOTORCYCLE ON PUBLIC ROADS

194. Rules on use of motorcycle on public roads

Part XXIX – USE OF BICYCLES ON PUBLIC ROADS

195. Rules on the use of bicycles on public roads and wearing of helmet

Part XXX – PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXEMPTED BODIES

196. Exemption from payment of registration, examination and weighing fees

197. Exempted bodies

Part XXXI – SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO OPERATORS OF TRANSPORT SERVICES

198. Establishment of safety unit by operators of transport services

199. Categories of transport service operators

200. Registration of commercial vehicle operators

201. Continuous education of commercial drivers

202. Code of ethics for transport associations and unions

Part XXXII – USE AND OPERATION OF AMBULANCE SERVICES

203. Permit for the operation of ambulance services

204. Colour of ambulances

205. Periodic examination of ambulances

Part XXXIII – OPERATION OF TOWING VEHICLES

206. Requirements for towing vehicles

207. Operation of commercial towing vehicles

Part XXXIV – MISCELLANEOUS MOTOR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

208. Designation of premises as motor parks

209. Driving, parking on footways or pavement

210. Marks on vehicles to be clear and legible at all times

211. Power to inspect vehicles

212. Requirement to weigh or reweigh vehicles

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Part XXXV – GENERAL PROVISIONS

214. Exemption of vehicles and plants used in construction and fire engine or pumps

215. Exemption in respect of registered Government vehicles

216. Public Road Codes

217. Road furniture, traffic signs, signals, notices, certification

218. Offences in relation to licences and permits under these Regulations

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Schedule 1

Paragraph (i)

Paragraph (ii)

Paragraph (iii)

Paragraph (iv)

Paragraph (v)

1 ( Regulation 5 (4) )

1 (Regulations 4 and 7)

Paragraph (Surname)

Paragraph (i)

Paragraph (ii)

Paragraph (iii)

Paragraph (iv)

S.I. 61

National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012

Published in Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette on 25 December 2012
Assented to on 13 August 2012
Commenced on 13 August 2012
[This is the version of this document as it was from 25 December 2012 to 3 January 2016.]

In exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 5 of the Federal Road Safety Commission (Establishment) Act, 2007 (‘the Act’) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the FEDERAL ROAD SAFETY COMMISSION (“Commission”) makes the following Regulations

Part I – OBJECTIVES

1. Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations are to

(a)give effect in Nigeria to the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic of September 19, 1949 and the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals of November 8, 1968; and

(b)provide operational requirements, rules and regulations for

(i)the registration and licencing of vehicles,

(ii)establishment and regulation of driving schools,

(iii)vehicle identification numbers, learner’s permit and driver’s l…

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S.I. 61

National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012

Part I – OBJECTIVES

1. Objectives

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