RTIA Annual Report E-Book

07. Legislative Mandate The work of the RTIA is governed by a legislative framework as set out below:

Name of Act

Purpose

• To promote road traffic quality by providing a scheme to discourage road traffic contraventions; • To facilitate the adjudication of road traffic infringements; • To support the prosecution of offences in terms of the national and provincial laws relating to road traffic; • To implement a points demerit system; • To provide for the establishment of an agency to administer the scheme; and • To provide for the establishment of the board to represent the agency • To give effect to the right to administrative action that is lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair and to the right to written reasons for administrative action as contemplated in section 33 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,1996; • And to provide for matters incidental thereto

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

Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, 2002 (Act No. 3 of 2002)

Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000)

• To give effect to the constitutional right of access to any information held by the State and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights; and • To provide for matters connected therewith

National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996)

• To provide for road traffic matters which shall apply uniformly through the Republic and for matters connected therewith

Criminal Procedures Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977)

• To make provision for procedures and related matters in criminal proceedings

• To provide for the strengthening of measures to prevent and combat corruption and corrupt activities; • To provide for the offence of corruption and offences relating to corrupt activities; • To provide for investigative measures in respect of corruption and related corrupt activities; • To provide for the establishment and endorsement of a Register in order to place certain restrictions on persons and enterprises convicted of corrupt activities relating to tenders and contracts; • To place a duty on certain persons holding a position of authority to report certain corrupt transactions; • To provide for extraterritorial jurisdiction in respect of the offence of corruption and offences relating to corrupt activities; and • To provide for matters connected therewith

Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, 2004 (Act No. 12 of 2004)

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Road Traffic Infringement Agency • Annual Report 2023/24