Road service licences (allowing holders to carry out goods and passenger transportation services) are granted to companies in which not less than 25% of membership and all Directors are Zambian citizens, and which are not controlled by persons who are not Zambian citizens. Notwithstanding this, the relevant authority may [exceptionally] grant a road service licence to a person who does not meet such requirements, but who is a holder of an investment licence issued in terms of the ZDA Act.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-[…]
"contract car" means a motor vehicle primarily constructed or adapted for the carriage of passengers and having seating accommodation for more than seven persons other than the driver, which is let out on hire to a hirer who is to drive oneself or provide the driver for such motor vehicle;
"hire car " means a public service vehicle having seating accommodation for not more than seven persons other than the driver which is let with a driver under contract over a period \}\hich is not less than twenty-four hours for the carriage of passengers otherwise than at separate fares; 
"public service vehicle" means a motor vehicle or trailer, other than a contract car hired for conveying passengers or goods or both or otherwise used for conveying passengers or goods or both for reward:
Provided that for the purposes of th is definition- (a) a hire-purchase agreement shall be deemed to be a hiring; and (b) goods shall be deemed to be carried for hire or reward if the person who has purchased or otherwise acquired such goods from some other person transports them to any other place, and resells or otherwise disposes of them to the person from whom that person purchased or otherwise acquired them; 
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PARTVIII - LICENSING OF PUBLIC SERVICE VEHICLES
101. (1) No person shall use or cause or permit to be on a road any vehicle as a public service vehicle for the carriage of goods unless there is in force in relation to such vehicle a road service licence authorising such use. 
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102.(1) Subjecttothe provisions of PartX no person shall use or cause or permit to be used any vehicle for the purpose of standing or plying for hire or as a public service vehicle for the carriage of persons unless there is in force in relation to the vehicle a road licence  authorizing such use.
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103. ( 1) Notwithstanding anything in this Part contained, a road service licence shall be granted for authorising the use on such terms and conditions as the Agency may determine, of any station wagon vehicle as a taxi cab or public service vehicle for the carriage of persons.
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108. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Director may Road service licences grant to any citizen of Zambia applying for a road service licence a road service licence in the prescribed form authorising the holder to provide such road service as may be specified in the road service licence. [...]
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) the Director may grant a road service licence to; or vary the provisions of a road service licence held by a person· who is not a citizen of Zambia, but is a holder of an investment licence issued in terms of the Investment Act [ZDA Act].
(4) In this section " citizen of Zambia " means-
(a) in relation to an individual, an individual who is a citizen of Zambia;
(b) in relation to a partnership, a partnership which is composed exclusively of persons who are citizens of Zambia;
(c) in relation to a body corporate, a body corporate which is incorporated under the laws of Zambia and-
(i) is certified under the hand of the Minister to be controlled by the State; or (ii) not less than seventy-five percentum of membership is exclusively composed of persons who are citizens of Zambia; (iii) whose Directors are exclusively citirens of 2.ambia; and (iv) which is not controlled by any means directly or inidirectly, outside Zambia or by persons who are not exclusively citizens of Zambia [...]"(ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 2002)



ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 2002
[<a href="https://old.zambialii.org/zm/legislation/act/2002/11/road-traffic-act-no-11-2002.pdf">Act</a>]