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Can I refuse to pay a speeding fine
The supplied sources do not state whether you may refuse to pay a speeding fine or what procedure applies if you dispute it. They do state that driving above the applicable speed limit is prohibited under section 76(4) of the Road Traffic and Transport Act, but the provided extract does not set out the penalty or payment procedure. 1
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Road Traffic and Transport Act 22 of 1999
(a) in respect of every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated within an urban area; (b) in respect of every public road or section thereof, other than a freeway, situated outside an urban area; and (c) in respect of every freeway, shall be as prescribed. (2) An appropriate road traffic sign may be displayed in accordance with section 74, indicating a speed limit other than the general speed limit which applies in respect of that road in terms of subsection (1), but such other speed limit shall not be higher than the speed limit prescribed in terms of paragraph (c) of that subsection. (3) The Minister may prescribe in respect of any particular class of vehicle a speed...
Employees' Compensation Act 30 of 1941
(11) Any person who, having been duly summoned - (a) refuses, or without sufficient cause fails, to attend the formal hearing in question at the place, date and time specified in the summons; (b) refuses to take the prescribed oath or to make an affirmation when required to do so by the person presiding at such hearing; (c) leaves such hearing without the permission of the person presiding at such hearing, whether or not such person has given evidence; (d) refuses to give evidence at the enquiry or refuses to answer fully and satisfactorily to the best of his or her knowledge and belief any question lawfully put to him or her or refuses to produce any document, book, record or thing which su...
Mines Works and Minerals Ordinance 20 of 1958
summon witnesses to give evidence or to produce documents or any article or thing which he may deem requisite for properly conducting the trial or inquiry. (2) Whenever a t any inquiry evidence has been given wherefrom any person is of opinion that he may be charged with contravening any provision of this ordinance or a regulation, or may be held responsible in any manner for the accident forming the subject of the inquiry, such person may cross- examine any witness, or may require the person conducting such inquiry to summon any witness on his behalf either to give evidence or to produce documents or any article whatsoever and every such person may appoint any other person to represent him...
Defence Act 1 of 2002
(a) drives any motor vehicle, being public property, in a negligent or reckless manner or at an excessive speed or while such person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs; or (b) flies any aircraft, being public property, in a negligent or reckless manner or at an unauthorized altitude or while such person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs, commits an offence and is liable on conviction, where no other penalty is specially prescribed in this Code, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years. Fraudulent enlistment
Tobacco Products Control Act 1 of 2010
sum of money equal to that amount, to the magistrate of the district or area wherein the offence is alleged to have been committed, and thereupon that person may not be prosecuted for having committed that offence. (2) A person receiving a notification issued under subsection (1) from an inspector who has been authorised by a local authority as contemplated in section 30(2), may deliver or transmit the notification, together with a sum of money equal to the amount specified in the notification, to the local authority concerned. (3) The local authority concerned must not later than seven days after receipt of a sum of money as provided in subsection (2), forward to the magistrate of the distr...
Police Offences Proclamation 27 of 1920
of each act or offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, or in default of payment to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three months, unless such penalty be sooner paid: (1) Any driver of any vehicle injuring any property by negligence or driving on the wrong side of the road: (2) Any driver of any vehicle being away from his horse or cattle so as to be unable to have the full control of them: (3) Driving any vehicle or riding an y animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal being ridden not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or p...