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AARTO COMMENCEMENT DATES PROCLAIMED
- 01 August 2025
- Transport
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: On 1 December 2025, the presidential proclamations were withdrawn in three separate notices backdated to 28 November 2025. A link to each notice can be found next to the proclamation concerned, underlined and emboldened in red. Implementing regulations gazetted on 31 October 2025 were also withdrawn.
The 1998 Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act’s incremental operationalisation is scheduled to continue on 1 December 2025, 1 April 2026 and 1 September 2026, when various sections will apply to specific municipal areas, along with various provisions in the 2019 Amendment Act. This is according to presidential proclamations separately published in the Government Gazette.
Amended in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2019, the purpose of the AARTO Act is to ‘promote road traffic quality’ by providing for a scheme to:
- ‘discourage road traffic contraventions’
- ‘facilitate the adjudication of road traffic infringements’
- ‘support the prosecution of offences in terms of … national and provincial laws relating to road traffic’, and
- ‘implement a points demerit system’.
Please click the links below for more information:
- presidential proclamation 273 on sections of the 1998 Act (withdrawn)
- presidential proclamation 274 (duplicating proclamation 273 on sections of the 1998 Act) (withdrawn)
- presidential proclamation 272 on sections of the 2019 Amendment Act (withdrawn)
- 1998 Act with amending legislation
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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