RTIA Annual Report E-Book

may then consider the facts presented and make an appropriate outcome known to the alleged infringer, which may include that the representation is allowed and the infringer is not liable for payment; or the representation is rejected due to a lack of evidence and the infringer is liable for the penalty and/ or any additional administrative fees payable to the RTIA or the applicable Issuing Authority. The infringer may on rejection of the representation elect to be tried in a court of law in order for the court to consider the facts presented. The total number of representation applications received and adjudicated during the year is given in the table below. Unsuccessful Number of Representation Adjudicated per Month Month

(182828) the number of representations adjudicated (164562) is caused by duplicated representations (re-submission), pending representations and payments made while the representation was still pending.

The number of representations adjudicated per month during the year in terms of the various outcome categories is reflected in the graph below.

Number of Representation Adjudicated

30000

Applications Received

Applications Cancelled

Successful All Charges

Successful Main Charge

20000

Apr 2023 May 2023 Jun 2023 Jul 2023 Aug 2023 Sep 2023 Oct 2023 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 Jan 2024 Feb 2024 Mar 2024 Year Total

11 176 15 936 15 846 14 301 15 429 17 669 18 503 17 744 10 494 12 574 14 240 18 916 182 828

3 972 4 036 4 953 3 289 3 814 2 423 4 359 5 036 2 428 2 623 4 068 5 756 46 757

5 897 9 063 8 788 8 440 9 873 14 453 12 531 11 963 7 079 8 484 9 017 10 382 115 970

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57

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May 2023

June 2023

July 2023

Aug 2023

Sept 2023

Oct 2023

Nov 2023

Dec 2023

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Feb 2024

Mar 2024

10

72

18

149

15

122

Successfull Main Charge

Applications Cancelled

Successfull All Charges

Unsuccessful

17

148

9

157

12

152

The graph above shows that the representation results with the outcome of successful on all charges were higher than other outcomes on a month-to-month comparisons. The second highest results were the cancelled applications. Some charges on which the representations are based in comparison with the previous year are reflected in the table below.

13

215

11

191

14

281

148

1 687

The table above shows a total number of 182 828 applications were received by RTIA for representations. Out of the total received, 46 757 were cancelled, 115 970 were successful on all charges, less than 148 were successful on the main charge, and only 1 687 were unsuccessful. Please note that the gap of 18266 between the number of received representations

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Road Traffic Infringement Agency • Annual Report 2023/24