Referred to as: Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences · AARTO
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Deputy Chief Dhlamini denies that AARTO notices are of no major significance to the taxi industry, affirming their major interest in such notices and related traffic enforcement matters.
“No.”
RTMC enforces by-law related warrants by blocking drivers or vehicles with unpaid fines to ensure settlement, but for negligent driving warrants, the police department does not currently execute them under AARTO provisions.
“Most of the warrants are by-law related warrants and so forth. So currently RTMC use enforcement notices to say if fines are not paid, they enforce, they block the driver or whoever on the system to ensure that they pay...Much as I am saying, currently under AARTO we do not have, I mean, those warrants.”
Deputy Chief Dhlamini confirms that the extension of AARTO enforcement to the City of Pretoria occurred around 2007 or 2009.
“If I am not mistaken, I am not sure, either 2007 or 2009, we have been on AARTO as the City.”
An example given by Deputy Chief Dhlamini of an SLA with the South African Post Office (SAPO) relates to posting infringement notices through the authority given to SAPO by AARTO.
“I will give a practical example of a SAPO SLA that we have for posting of infringement notices, because AARTO has given South African Post Office that authority to ensure that our infringement notices can send through.”