Legal headache over AES a technicality, says transport minister


KUALA LUMPUR, February 2 Calling it a "technical issue", Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha pronounced today a ride ministry has yet to finalise a authorised emanate over a Automated Enforcement System (AES) which has caused large confusion between motorists given December when a Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) froze prosecuting speeding motorists.
The ride minister(picture)maintained which offenders must compensate a fines even though he pronounced they need not turn up in justice while a government as well as charge work out a authorised tangle which has shaped over a privatisation of trade law enforcement.
"Actually not most issues has not been resolved. The only thing is a routine in court," he told reporters during a MCA headquarters here.
"It's something which we need to handle," he said, adding which a Attorney-General (A-G) Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail "is looking in to it."
He was asked what were a issues in relation to a AES which sojourn unresolved.
When asked if there was any denote when a authorised emanate would be resolved, Kong said: "I consider that's a technical issue, we are doing it."
Some 300,000 summonses have been issued given a AES kicked off on Sep 23 last year as well as a AGC systematic a freeze following widespread public outcry over a complement which will see twin companies, Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd as well as ATES Sdn Bhd which were contracted to implement as well as run a speed-trap camera system, receive a cut of a gain from a fines.
Both a sovereign government as well as a AGC have been underneath fire for frozen a charge of trade offenders underneath a AES yet allowing a complement to go on operating.
Kong maintained which motorists who receive a summonses must compensate up.
"Yes, if summons is issued, it has to be p! aid," he said.
But he indicated which those who did not compensate need not go to justice for a time being, until his ministry as well as a AGC finalise a prosecution's woes.
The privatised RM700 million plan began on Sep 23, 2012 with a commander proviso of fourteen cameras but a Road Transport Department has affianced to roll out a sum of 831 cameras by end-2013 to catch speeding motorists as well as forestall some-more road deaths.
The police, who make a speeding laws, have pronounced they will go on coercion as well as put up mobile speed traps near a AES cameras, raising a prospect of twin fines for erring motorists.
The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sovereign opposition has been regulating a emanate as electoral fodder in a run-up to national polls which must be called by Apr when a statute Barisan Nasional's (BN) mandate expires.
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