FINES???????

werfie

werfie

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Can someone please let me know How I check outstanding fines for:

  1. JMPD
  2. Ekurhuleni
  3. Tshwane

PayCity says none, Aarto website says 8, but I have never received any of these fines and I know some of them were deemed illegal and in a testing phase and what not? Who can I contact to check? I have tried looking for an email address or telephone number to check but couldn't find anything. And these stupid fine websites help nothing, there are millions of them and each one only covers 1 and a half municipality. One would think that they would make it easier for you to hand over your hard earned cash.
 
Got the same problem, still waiting for a written fine to show up on one of these sites as I lost the original. So now I'm waiting for the warrant so that I can go to court and explain why I did not pay...
 
AlphaBravo said:
Got the same problem, still waiting for a written fine to show up on one of these sites as I lost the original. So now I'm waiting for the warrant so that I can go to court and explain why I did not pay...
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Some of these fines date back to 2008!! I haven't received a notice, summons, sms, phone call nothing, I stumbled across them by chance when I wanted look up a fine that I received after being pulled over. It is actually ridiculous. I don't mind paying my fines, if you break to law you have to pay, but they make it near impossible to know what is actually going on.
 
After 5 years a fine expires - so wait like one more year and you don't have to pay the ones from 2008 :)
 
werfie said:
Can someone please let me know How I check outstanding fines for:

  1. JMPD
  2. Ekurhuleni
  3. Tshwane

PayCity says none, Aarto website says 8, but I have never received any of these fines and I know some of them were deemed illegal and in a testing phase and what not? Who can I contact to check? I have tried looking for an email address or telephone number to check but couldn't find anything. And these stupid fine websites help nothing, there are millions of them and each one only covers 1 and a half municipality. One would think that they would make it easier for you to hand over your hard earned cash.
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Is it Tshwane or Pretoria?
 
saw this yesterday

MOTORISTS who have been arrested at roadblocks and forced to pay outstanding fines should institute legal action for an illegal arrest and demand their payments back, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Tuesday.

Through questions in Parliament, the FF+ has confirmed what many had suspected was a major flaw in the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act.

It specifically states that all notices of traffic infringements are to be personally handed to a driver at the scene of an offence.

If this is not possible, the notices must be sent to the driver via registered mail.

Transport Minister Ben Martins yesterday confirmed, in response to a question in Parliament by FF+ MP Anton Alberts, fines could not be delivered by ordinary mail.

He also said the Aarto Act did not make provision for motorists to be arrested for outstanding penalties, but added his office had not yet received complaints about this from the public.

Mr Martins said that if an authority issuing fines did not follow the prescripts of section 30 of the Aarto Act in delivering infringement letters, such documents could be interpreted as "never having been served" on alleged infringers.

Mr Alberts said the effect of this answer from Mr Martins was that everyone who had paid a fine without it being properly served "can claim their money back".

However, Mr Martins said the withholding of access to National Traffic Information System transactions — such as the issuing of driving licences, professional driving permits and vehicle licence discs — was authorised under the Aarto Act and would only be done if an enforcement order had been issued to infringers. Mr Alberts said no such enforcement orders had been issued, and the practice of refusing to issue a licence was also illegal.

"It is time that the public puts up resistance against the state’s illegal actions and intimidation and forces the state to abide by its own legislation.

"The FF+ is investigating the possibility of instituting legal action to have all the illegal fines paid back," he added.
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http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/law/2012/11/14/traffic-fines-roadblock-arrests-illegal
 
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