Legislation: 2015 Aarto Bill finally leaves Parliament

The 2015 Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill’s ‘D’ version has been sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for assent (IoL), notes Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. Substantively revised since being tabled, the Bill now provides for the establishment of an appeals tribunal – along with rehabilitation programmes for habitual infringers. Recommendations made by the NCOP and adopted by the National Assembly’s Transport Committee were tabled in the National Assembly on 13 February. Endorsed yesterday by majority vote, they allow the tribunal to condone the late filing of an appeal or review ‘on good cause shown’ and for appeals and reviews to be lodged in a Magistrate’s Court within 30 days of the decision concerned.

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