{"id":160509,"date":"2017-02-27T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=160509"},"modified":"2017-02-27T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:22:44","slug":"millions-of-gauteng-traffic-fines-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/160509\/millions-of-gauteng-traffic-fines-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Gauteng traffic fines scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that millions of traffic fines issued since 2008 must be scrapped, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/citizen.co.za\/news\/news-national\/1440647\/court-scraps-fines\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Citizen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a ruling on Friday, all fines issued since 2008 that did not comply with the conditions outlined in the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act must be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled in favour of Fines4U, which represented Audi Johannesburg against the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA).<\/p>\n<p>Fines4U owner Cornelia van Niekerk said this ruling could affect a large percentage of the millions of fines issued over the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg Metro Police issued 5.3 million traffic fines from 2015 to 2016, and the Tshwane Metro Police issued 1.1 million in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that the RTIA did not comply with the prescribed notification periods detailed in the AARTO Act, nullifying many traffic fines issued since the act\u2019s implementation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/160047\/these-are-the-most-popular-used-cars-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">These are the most popular used cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that millions of traffic fines issued since 2008 must be scrapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":93302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-160509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160513,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160509\/revisions\/160513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}