Secure mail thumbs up for Aarto notice delivery
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has found that the manner in which the Road Traffic Infringement Agency served notices on traffic violations was sufficient. A Pretoria News report says this was after the difference between registered mail and secured mail to serve road traffic offences – better known as Aarto notices – was argued.
The Justice Project SA (JPSA) insisted that either personal service or service by registered mail was the only way in which to serve traffic fines in terms of the Aarto Act.
It asked Judge David Unterhalter to declare fines could only be served via these means.
The judge concluded that the method of service used by the agency at present had essential attributes of what the Aarto Act required in terms of service by registered mail.
This is because the infringement notice was tracked from where it was sent until it was collected.
Unterhalter subsequently slapped the JPSA with a cost order. However, the JPSA said it would appeal against this as it had litigated in the public interest.
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