RTIA Calls Upon Road Users to Contribute to draft AARTO Regulations
The Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) wishes to advise members of the public that draft Regulations developed to govern the implementation of the Administrative Adjudication of the Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act have been published in the Government Gazette, Vol. 652, 11 October 2019, No. 42765 for public comment.
The Minister of Transport, Mr Fikile Mbalula, intends to amend the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Regulations, 2008 by revoking the Regulations published in Government Notice No.R.753 of 16 July of 2008 with the exception of Schedule 3 with the currently publicised Schedule being published for public comments.
President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the AARTO Act on 13 Agust 2019. Subsequent to the signing of the AARTO Amendment Bill into law, Minister Mbalula publicly welcomed the approval of the Act by the President in a road safety law enforcement operation that was set up on the N1 Maubane off-ramp on 18 August 2019.
Some of the Chapters in the draft Regulations provide details on how the adjudication procedure on the infringements is designed to work. Furthermore, the draft document gives proposals on the appointment and rules governing the operations of the Appeals Tribunal. Members of the public are particularly invited to make proposals on the Regulations of the Act in an effort to reduce fatalities on our roads.
The RTIA takes this opportunity to invite members of the road user community to visit the RTIA website, www.rtia.co.za, in order to study the draft Regulations so that they make contributions to the document.
“We welcome the continued debate generated by the promulgation of the AARTO Act and the release of the draft Regulations. We hope all roleplayers would be able to submit their inputs before the expiry of the 30-day period”, said RTIA Registrar Japh Chuwe.
All objections, inputs or comments should be emailed to RTIA’s Adv Qacha Moletsane on Qacha.moletsane@rtia.co.za or Department of Transport’s Adv. Ngwako Thoka on thokan@dot.gov.za.
