Where was it issued?

Which system applies

AARTO applies in the municipalities named in the 2026 proclamations and nowhere else. Pick the one printed on your notice; if it is not listed, you are on the Criminal Procedure Act route.

Issuing municipality

62 municipalities · type to narrow

Until you choose, treat every AARTO figure on this page as conditional. It is wrong for most of the country.

Is AARTO in force where your fine was issued?

AARTO is not national law in the ordinary sense. The Act lets the President bring different provisions into operation in different areas on different dates, and in 2026 that is exactly what happened. This page lists the areas, states what was commenced in each, and is plain about the parts that were not.

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The position

Where AARTO stands, as at its commencement

Two proclamations of the same day did two different things, in two different lists of areas. The difference between those lists is small and it matters.

60Areas where the Act’s own named sections were commencedProclamation 322 of 2026, from 1 July 2026
62Areas where the amending Act was commencedProclamation 323 of 2026, from 1 July 2026
14Sections of the Act named in the first proclamationAnd the ones it does not name decide the demerit-points question

The delta

Two metros appear on the longer list only: City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

Neither proclamation says why those two metros appear only in the longer list. The explanation that fits the record is that AARTO’s operative sections have applied in both since the 2008-series proclamations, so the 2026 proclamation that commences AARTO afresh had nothing left to do there — while the amended text still needed commencing. That is an inference from the two lists read side by side, not something either instrument states, and it is labelled as one here for that reason.

Annexure A to Proclamation 322 of 2026 read against Annexure A to Proclamation 323 of 2026

The list

The municipalities, in the proclamation’s own order

Transcribed from the annexure as enacted, including its own spellings. If the municipality on your notice is not here, AARTO does not apply to it and none of the AARTO figures on this site does either.

Find your municipality

All 62 rows of the annexure, in its own order

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Municipalities named in Annexure A
#	District	Municipality or area	On both lists
1	OR Tambo	King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality: Mthatha Area	Both
2	Chris Hani	Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality: Queenstown	Both
3	Buffalo City	Buffalo City Metro: East London	Both
4	Nelson Mandela Bay	Nelson Mandela Bay Metro: PE Area (Gqeberha)	Both
5	Alfred Nzo	Matatiele Local Municipality	Both
6	Joe Gqabi	Elundini Local Municipality: Maclear	Both
7	Alfred Nzo	Umzimvubu Local Municipality	Both
8	Sarah Baartman	Dr Beyers Naude Local Municipality	Both
9	Joe Gqabi	Walter Sisulu Local Municipality	Both
10	Lejweleputswa	Matjhabeng Local Municipality: Welkom	Both
11	Feziwe Dabi	Moqhaka Local Municipality: Kroonstad	Both
12	Thabo Mofutsanyana	Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality: QwaQwa/Harrismith	Both
13	METRO	Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality: Bloemfontein	Both
14	Thabo Mofutsanyane	Dihlabeng Local Municipality	Both
15	Xhariep	Mohokare Local Municipality	Both
16	Feziwe Dabi	Metsimaholo Local Municipality	Both
17	West Rand	Merafong Local Municipality: Carletonville	Both
18	West Rand	Mogale Local Municipality: Krugersdorp	Both
19	Sedibeng	Lesedi Local Municipality: Heidelberg	Both
20	West Rand	Rand West City Local Municipality	Both
21	Sedibeng	Midvaal Local Municipality: Meyerton	Both
22	METRO	City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality	Both
23	METRO	Emfuleni Local Municipality: Vereeniging	Both
24	METRO	City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality	Amending Act only
25	METRO	City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality	Amending Act only
26	uThukela District	Alfred Duma Local Municipality: Ladysmith Area	Both
27	Amajuba	Newcastle Local Municipality	Both
28	King Cetshwayo	City of uMhlathuze Local Municipality: Richards Bay	Both
29	Durban	Durban Metropolitan: eThekwini Municipality	Both
30	iLembe	KwaDukuza Local Municipality: Stanger	Both
31	uMgungundlovu	Msunduzi Local Municipality: Pietermaritzburg	Both
32	Zululand	Ulundi Local Municipality: Mahlabathini	Both
33	Ugu	Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality: Port Shepstone	Both
34	UMkhanyakude	Jozini Local Municipality	Both
35	UMkhanyakude	Mtubatuba Local Municipality	Both
36	Capricorn	Polokwane Local Municipality	Both
37	Vhembe	Thulamela Local Municipality: Thohoyandou	Both
38	Sekhukhune	Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality: Burgersfort	Both
39	Waterberg	Mogalakwena Local Municipality: Mokopane	Both
40	Mopani	Greater Tzaneen Municipality	Both
41	Vhembe	Makhado Local Municipality	Both
42	Mopani	Greater Giyani Local Municipality	Both
43	Sekhukhune	Elias Motswaledi Local Municipality	Both
44	Ehlanzeni	City of Mbombela Local Municipality: Nelspruit	Both
45	Nkangala	Steve Tshwete Local Municipality: Middelburg	Both
46	Gert Sibande	Govan Mbeki Local Municipality: Bethal/Secunda	Both
47	Nkangala	Emalahleni Local Municipality: Witbank	Both
48	Ehlanzeni	Thaba Chweu Local Municipality: Mashishing	Both
49	Gert Sibande	Lekwa Local Municipality: Standerton	Both
50	Nkangala	Thembisile Hani Local Municipality	Both
51	Ehlanzeni	Nkomazi Local Municipality: Malelane	Both
52	ZF Mgcawu	Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality: Upington	Both
53	John Taolo Gaetsewe	Ga-Sagonyana Local Municipality: Kuruman	Both
54	Frances Baard	Sol Plaatjie Local Municipality: Kimberley	Both
55	Pixley ka Seme	Emthanjeni Local Municipality: De Aar	Both
56	Namakwa	Nama Khoi Local Municipality: Springbok	Both
57	Dr Kenneth Kaunda	City of Matlosana Local Municipality: Klerksdorp	Both
58	Dr Kenneth Kaunda	JB Marks Local Municipality: Potchefstroom	Both
59	Ngaka Modiri Molema	Mahikeng Local Municipality	Both
60	Ngaka Modiri Molema	Ditsobotla Local Municipality: Litchenburg	Both
61	Bojanala	Rusternburg Local Municipality	Both
62	Bojanala	Madibeng Local Municipality: Brits	Both

From 1 July 2026 · Annexure A to Proclamations 322 and 323 of 2026. Spellings are the enacted ones and are NOT silently corrected — one row is printed in both gazettes with a spelling that differs from the town’s usual one, and repairing it here would make that row unfindable by a search of the instrument. The order is the annexure’s too: the box above narrows the list, it never re-sorts it.

How it got here

The commencements before 2026

AARTO has been arriving in pieces since 2007. Two of the rows below rest on a different quality of source from the rest of this page, and they are marked.

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Pre-2026 commencements
Date	Sections	Instrument	Source held here
02 Jul 2007	ss.1-16, 36	Proclamation R.14 of 2007, GG 30033	SOURCED — the instrument itself
01 Jul 2008	ss.17-19, 20-35 (City of Tshwane)	Proclamation R.25 of 2008, GG 31198	SOURCED — a publisher’s consolidation note, not the proclamation
01 Nov 2008	ss.17-19, 20-35 (City of Johannesburg)	Proclamation 24 of 2008, GG 31197	SOURCED — a publisher’s consolidation note, not the proclamation
01 Apr 2010	ss.19A-19B (Tshwane + Johannesburg)	Proclamation 14 of 2010, GG 33084	SOURCED — the instrument itself

This row comes from a publisher’s editorial note inside a consolidated copy of the Act, not from the proclamation itself. The underlying Government Gazette is not held here, so it carries less weight than the 2026 position above it — which is quoted from the gazettes directly.

What changed

The amending Act, in the areas where it was commenced

This is the text now in force in the municipalities on the longer list. Several of the things readers expect to find in AARTO were removed by it.

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Changes made by the amending Act
What changed	Provision
The option to elect trial in court is GONE. s.17(1)(f)(iv) is deleted by s.7(b); s.19(2)(b)(iii) is deleted by s.9(c).	Act 4/2019 ss.7(b), 9(c)
Replaced by review or appeal to the Appeals Tribunal — s.18(7) as substituted requires the representations officer to advise the infringer "of his or her right of review or appeal to the Tribunal."	Act 4/2019 s.8(c)
The warrant is GONE. s.19B now leads to an enforcement order under s.20, not a warrant under s.21; s.20(3)'s warrant limb is deleted; ss.21 and 22 are repealed.	Act 4/2019 ss.10(b)-(c), 11(c), 12, 13
An enforcement order now issues where the infringer failed to apply for review or appeal to the Tribunal.	Act 4/2019 s.11(a)
CHAPTER IVA — Appeals Tribunal inserted: a juristic person, a tribunal of record, jurisdiction throughout the Republic, a Chairperson + 8 members appointed by the President.	Act 4/2019 s.16, inserting ss.29A ff.
s.29(a) no longer says "categorise them into minor infringements, major infringements and other offences" — it now reads simply "prescribe infringements and offences." Schedule 3's column 4 categorisation (Infringement / Offence) reflects the amended text.	Act 4/2019 s.15; AARTO Regulations 2026 reg 16(1)
The Agency is renamed the Authority throughout.	Act 4/2019 s.22

From 1 July 2026 · the AARTO Amendment Act 4 of 2019, commenced by Proclamation 323 of 2026 in its own annexure. ONE PROVISION WAS WITHHELD, and it is the one behind the rehabilitation rules — see the open questions below.

Demerit points

Prescribed in full, and in most of the country not operative

This is the most widely mis-reported thing about the rollout, and the payload is unambiguous about it: the sections of the Act that attach a consequence to a demerit point are not among the sections the proclamation commenced.

Before you use this

Prescribed everywhere, operative almost nowhere

The demerit-points system is fully prescribed — the threshold, the reduction rules and the disqualification arithmetic are all written into the regulations. In the areas proclaimed in 2026 it is nevertheless not operative: the sections of the Act that attach a consequence to a demerit point were not brought into operation there. Two metros are the exception, and have run the system since the 2008-series commencements. So a points figure quoted for the rest of the country describes a rule that exists on paper and imposes nothing.

Demerit points, as prescribed

Where the points were incurred

Points already on your record

From your own demerit-point enquiry. This site holds no records and cannot look yours up.

Points on this matter

From your own notice. The table that says how many points an offence carries is not held here.

Date the points were incurred

Reads as day month year — e.g. 15 July 2026

The date of the infringement the incoming points attach to.

Where that leaves you

Not operative here

Nothing is computed for this area, on purpose

This is one of the areas proclaimed in 2026, where the sections that attach a consequence to a demerit point were never brought into operation. There is no arithmetic to run.

Why, and under which provisions

Two ways points come off, and they are not added together. One point comes off for every clear period of 3 months. Successfully completing a rehabilitation programme takes off 4 points. They are separate mechanisms. A reader picks one per event; nothing in the regulations sums them. Whether the rehabilitation reduction can operate at all is one of this site’s open questions: the function that would administer the programmes is the single provision the commencement proclamation withheld.

City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

And in those two metros, an older set of rules may still apply

A matter that had already begun in either of those two metros before the 2026 regulations took effect is concluded under the repealed 2008 regulations, not the new ones. Their disqualification threshold is a different number, their schedule of offences is a different document, and several classes of infringer were excluded from the discount entirely under them. Reading such a matter with the 2026 rules gives the wrong answer at almost every step.

The earlier threshold was 12 points, not 15.

The mechanism itself is fully written down: a threshold of 15 points, a disqualification of 3 months for every point above it, one point off for every clear period of 3 months, and 4 points off on successful completion of a rehabilitation programme. The points for each offence sit in a column of the schedule this site does not hold.

What is missing is not the rule. It is the commencement: a regulation cannot bring into force a provision of the Act the President has not commenced, and the proclamation’s list of sections does not include the ones that make a demerit point do anything.

Two ways points come off

Both start from a record sitting at the threshold. They are separate mechanisms with separate triggers, and a reader takes one per event — nothing in the regulations adds them together.

15 → 14

After one clear period of 3 months with no further points.

Regulation 20(7)(a); section 28

15 → 11

On successful completion of a rehabilitation programme — and whether that limb can operate at all is one of the open questions below.

Regulation 20(7)(b); regulation 23 — unsettled

Unsettled

Five questions this site does not answer

Each has two defensible readings. Both are stated and neither is chosen: settling a live legal question is not this site’s to do, and one that quietly picks a side has made a claim it cannot support.

UNSETTLED

Does commencing the whole Amendment Act in an area also commence the sections it amends?

One reading

The orthodox reading: an amending Act operates on the TEXT of the principal Act. Commencing it changes the wording, but a principal-Act section that was never itself brought into operation in that area stays inoperative there — amended, but not in force.

The other reading

The competing reading: bringing an Act that amends a section into operation in a named area brings the amended section into operation there too, because there is nothing else for the commencement to bite on.

Proclamation 322 of 2026 and Proclamation 323 of 2026, read against section 36(2) of the AARTO Act 46 of 1998

UNSETTLED

Does a disqualification start after the stated period, or must it be imposed inside it?

One reading

The text before the amendment reads “with effect from” the stated period, which puts the start of the disqualification at the end of it — one determinate date, arrived at by counting.

The other reading

The amending Act substitutes “within” the same period, which reads instead as a window inside which something must happen. The two wordings put the moment in different places, and the substitution was deliberate enough to be worth noticing.

Section 25(1) of the AARTO Act 46 of 1998, as substituted by section 14(a) of the Amendment Act 4 of 2019

UNSETTLED

Does the Appeals Tribunal have jurisdiction in areas where its own chapter is not in force?

One reading

The inserted chapter says in terms that the Tribunal has jurisdiction throughout the Republic, and a jurisdiction clause means what it says.

The other reading

The chapter that creates the Tribunal was itself commenced only in the proclaimed areas. A body cannot draw authority in an area from a chapter that has not been brought into operation there.

Section 29A(2)(a) of the AARTO Act 46 of 1998, inserted by section 16 of the Amendment Act 4 of 2019, read against Proclamation 323 of 2026

UNSETTLED

The regulation and the prescribed form point at two different regulations for the same thing

One reading

The regulation that grants the reduction cross-references the regulation that creates the rehabilitation programme. On the face of the regulations that is the correct provision, and the regulation is right.

The other reading

The prescribed form printed in the schedule cross-references a different regulation for the same programme — one that is about access to demerit-point information and has nothing to do with rehabilitation. The form appears simply to be wrong.

Regulation 20(7)(b) of the AARTO Regulations, 2026, read against the Schedule 1 form panels. Printed here as found, and not silently repaired.

UNSETTLED

Can the rehabilitation rules operate while the function behind them is not in force?

One reading

They cannot, meaningfully. The one provision the commencement proclamation declined to bring into operation is the one that gives the Authority the function of administering rehabilitation programmes — and the reduction, the programme and its fee all sit downstream of that function.

The other reading

They can. The regulations were made under the Minister’s own rule-making power, which does not depend on the Authority’s list of functions; an uncommenced function withholds an institutional role, not the rules themselves.

Section 2(g) of the Amendment Act 4 of 2019 (excluded by Proclamation 323 of 2026), read against regulations 20(7)(b) and 23 and Schedule 2, paragraph 5.9

Verification status

Nobody has signed these figures off

Every value on this site is recorded as research: transcribed from the cited instrument, and not yet checked by the reviewer who is accountable for it. That is a statement about this site, not about the instruments. Where a figure decides something for you, read it against the citation printed beside it.