Driving: the Rijwet 1971 Governs It, and the Official Collection Does Not Publish It
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Venezuela on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Venezuela to Suriname · Driving and licence exchange
Driving in Suriname is governed by the Rijwet 1971, and the National Assembly's collection of legislation does not contain it. What the collection carries are two instruments that amend it - an Act of 18 December 1989 amending the Rijwet 1971 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, and a decree on motor vehicle liability insurance and the Rijwet 1971 - and the 1989 entry has no document attached to its page at all. The existence and the article structure of the Rijwet are confirmed from outside it: the Wet Identificatieplicht Dienstverleners of 2002 identifies a client by, among other things, a valid driving licence as referred to in article 7(1)(3) of the Rijwet 1971. We therefore know the Act is in force and that it issues driving licences under article 7, and we cannot say from a document we have read what it requires of a foreign licence holder, how long one may drive on a foreign or international licence, or on what terms a licence is exchanged.
At a glance
- Governing Act
- Rijwet 1971
- Published in the National Assembly's collection
- No
Two amending instruments appear; the Act itself does not. The 1989 amending Act's page carries no document.
- Period a foreign licence may be used
- Not established
- Exchange of a foreign licence
- Not established
Requirements
- A driving licence issued under the Rijwet 1971, whose conditions we have not been able to read
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Venezuela
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«3. Indien de cliënt een natuurlijke persoon is, wordt de identiteit vastgelegd met
behulp van de volgende documenten:
a. een geldig rijbewijs als bedoeld in artikel 7 lid 1 sub 3 van de Rijwet 1971,
of
b. een geldige identiteitskaart, of
c. een geldig reisdocument, of
d. een in het land van herkomst van cliënt ander geldig document, dat aan de
wettelijke eisen van dat land voldoet.»Our translation - not official
If the client is a natural person, the identity is recorded with the help of the following documents: (a) a valid driving licence as referred to in article 7(1)(3) of the Rijwet 1971
Cited for what it establishes about a statute we could not read: the Rijwet 1971 is in force and issues driving licences under article 7. The quotation continues through the other three accepted documents.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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«WET van 18 december 1989 tot nadere wijziging van de "Rijwet 1971"»Our translation - not official
ACT of 18 December 1989 further amending the "Rijwet 1971"
The entry continues: current text S.B. 1978 no. 54, as last amended by S.B. 1989 no. 41. The page offers no document to download, unlike every other entry we opened in this collection.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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Practical notes
This is a gap in our reading and not a finding about Surinamese law. The Rijwet 1971 exists, is in force and was consolidated at S.B. 1978 no. 54; the publisher's own entry says so. We looked for it in all four of the National Assembly's collections - texts in force to 2005, Acts after 2005, amendments after 2005 and treaties - and found only the two amending instruments.
Until the Act is read, nothing is recorded here about international driving permits, the age at which a licence may be held, or whether a licence from a CARICOM state is treated differently. Any of those would have to come from the Act or from an instrument under it.
- consolidatesWet Identificatieplicht Dienstverleners (S.B. 2002 no. 66)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname · consolidated to 2005
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
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- consolidatesWet wijz. Rijwet 1971 en Wetboek van Strafvordering (S.B. 1989 no. 98)
De Nationale Assemblee van de Republiek Suriname
About this source
The National Assembly's legislation portal, and the only public collection of Surinamese law we found. Four collections, divided by one date. `Geldende teksten t/m 2005` holds consolidated texts: amendments were worked into the parent Acts in a project in 2005. `Wetten na 2005`, `Wijzigingen na 2005` and `Overeenkomsten/verdragen` hold the Acts, amending Acts and treaty-approval Acts published since, each as a facsimile of the page of the Staatsblad van de Republiek Suriname in which it was promulgated. Together about five hundred instruments. It also publishes `Naturalisatie wetten`, because in Suriname naturalisation is granted by an Act of Parliament.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The consolidation stops in 2005 and the portal says so on its own index page: "De nieuwe wetten en wetswijzigingen zijn daarna niet opgenomen in de geldende tekst." So a text from the first collection shows the law as the 2005 project left it and nothing more - the Income Tax Act's consolidated text carries amendments only to S.B. 2003 no. 30, prints its rate table in a currency withdrawn in 2004, and has ten later amending entries in the portal's own list. Every money figure in that collection is in Surinamese guilders. Instruments in the other three collections are as enacted and carry no cut-off, but they are scans with no text layer, so they are readings of a picture. The collection carries Acts, amendments, treaties, naturalisation Acts and budgets, and does NOT carry staatsbesluiten, ministeriële beschikkingen or resoluties - which is where much of Surinamese immigration practice lives, so the absence of a measure here is never evidence that it was not made. It also does not always carry the parent Act: the Rijwet 1971 and the Wet Tarief van Invoerrechten 1996 appear only through instruments amending them, and the 1989 Act amending the Rijwet has a page with no document attached.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source