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

Chapter IV : Points demerit system

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The Minister, acting with the concurrence of the Minister of Justice and the MEC of each province, may for the purpose of this Act—

(a)	prescribe offences, and categorise them into minor infringements, major infringements and other offences;

(b)	prescribe the penalty, expressed as a single unit or multiple units accorded a monetary value, which must be imposed for each infringement, as contemplated in section 31;

(c)	prescribe the demerit points which are incurred for each offence or infringement, as contemplated in section 24; and

(d)	prescribe the total number of demerit points which, if exceeded, disqualifies a person from driving or operating any motor vehicle as contemplated in section 25.