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South Africa — The Roodepoort traffic department is urging all residents to pay their outstanding traffic fines as soon as possible.
In the past many residents decided to avoid paying their traffic fines because "What would happen if we don’t?" The Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) answered to this saying "The prosecuting authority will submit and serve you with a summons for you to appear in court, should you not pay the fine, nor contest the fine, nor respond to their notices or courtesy letters." according to them you will need to plead your case in court and explain and defend yourself in a court of law.
If you ignore the summons instructions to appear in court on a certain date the prosecutor will process a warrant for your arrest for being in contempt of court.
"If you are stopped in a traffic roadblock, you will be arrested and need to go to court as per the warrant issued."
You will be held liable for all costs of court administration, and you will still be expected to pay the outstanding traffic fine(s).
So rather pay it the first time around than incur all these extra costs.
One of the issues around AARTO is that you are assumed guilty, under south african law you are inocent untill proven guilty, I would never pay a fine without first exercising my right to face my accuser.
ReplyDeleteI would recomend that every s.a citizen become fermilier with their rights, question every fine and be prepaired to defend themselvs in court if need be, there is a lot of fraud commited by trafic agencies willingly or unwillingly and there for the majority of fines are un prosicutable.