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Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act, 1998 (Act No. 46 of 1998)

Chapter II : Road Traffic Infringement Authority

13. Financing of Authority

 

(1) The Authority is financed from—
(a) fees paid to the Authority in terms of this Act;
(b) deductions from penalties collected by the Authority as contemplated in section 32;
(c) money appropriated by Parliament for that purpose;
(d) donations received, which must be declared in the annual report contemplated in section 7(2);

[Section 1(1) substituted by section 7 of Act No. 72 of 2002]

(dA) penalties issued and collected by, or on behalf of, an issuing authority; and

[Section 13(dA) inserted by section 5(b) of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Act, 2019 (Act No. 4 of 2019), Notice No. 1080, GG42648, dated 19 August 2019 - shall come into operation, (a) 1 December 2025 and, (b) 1 April 2026 respectively, per Proclamation 272 of GG53099, dated 1 August 2025 except for section 2(g)]

(e) money received from any other source.

 

(2) The Authority must utilise any money contemplated in subsection (1) in accordance with the statement of estimated expenditure referred to in subsection (3).

 

(3) The registrar—
(a) must, subject to the business plan approved by the Board, in each financial year, at a time determined by the Board, submit a statement of estimated income and expenditure for the following financial year to the Board for approval by the Minister acting in consultation with the Minister of Finance; and
(b) may in any financial year submit adjusted statements of estimated income and expenditure to the Board for approval by the Minister acting in consultation with the Minister of Finance.

 

(4) The financial year of the Authority is determined by the Minister.

 

(5) At the end of each financial year, the registrar must invest such amounts of any surplus funds of the Authority, as may be determined by the Minister in consultation with the Minister of Finance, in a separate account, from which payments may be made to any authority or body for the purpose of road safety or road traffic law enforcement.

 

(6) Subject to subsection (5), any surplus funds of the Authority not invested for the purpose contemplated in that subsection, must be invested in the National Revenue Account.