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

Chapter III : Adjudication procedure

19. Courtesy letter

 

(1) If an infringer has failed to comply with an infringement notice as contemplated in section 17(1)(f) and the agency has been notified of the failure in terms of section 17(2), the agency must issue a courtesy letter and serve it on the infringer.

 

(2) A courtesy letter must—
(a) inform the infringer that he or she has failed to comply with the infringement notice;
(b) give notice that the infringer must, not later than 32 days after the date of service of the courtesy letter—

[Words preceding Section 19(2)(b) substituted by section 10 of Act No. 72 of 2002]

(i) make representations in respect of a minor infringement;
(ii) pay the penalty and the prescribed fee of the courtesy letter to the agency; or
(iii) notify the agency in the prescribed manner that he or she elects to be tried in court; and
(c) state that a failure to comply with the requirements of the courtesy letter within the time permitted, will result in the registrar issuing an enforcement order in terms of section 20.

 

(3) If an infringer pays the penalty and fee as contemplated in subsection (2)(b), the agency must—
(a) update the national contraventions register in the prescribed manner;
(b) record the demerit points incurred by the infringer in the national contraventions register;
(c) notify the infringer by registered mail in the prescribed manner that the demerit points have been recorded against his or her name in the national contraventions register in respect of the infringement in question; and
(d) provide the infringer with a printout of the demerit points incurred by him or her to date, together with an indication of the number of points left before his or her driving licence, professional driving permit or operator card is suspended in terms of section 25 or cancelled in terms of section 27.

 

 


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