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SOMALILAND ROADS & TRAFFIC LAWS

 As no comprehensive laws relating to road traffic have been passed since Somaliland’s re-assertion of its independence in 1991, the comprehensive, but dated, Somali Republic Traffic Code, Legislative Decree No: 4 of 16 December 1962 is, as far as possible, used in Somaliland.  Copies of the Code are available here:

• 1962 Traffic Code Legislative Decree No. 4 of 16 December 1962 -  in English language (some of the pages are faint).
• ARABIC version of the 1962 Traffic Code (Qanun almaroor) with updates 1972: Please note that the beginning is at the end of the document. This a large pdf document.
• XEERKA WADO MARISTA - Somali language translation by Advocates Hassan Farah Mohamed and Hibak Ibrahin Gamute of Watershed Legal Services, Hargeisa, Republic of Somaliland.

 The Compulsory motor insurance laws have gone it disuse. The last such laws was the Compulsory Third Party Motor Insurance Law - Law No. 20 of 15 January 1973