The Credit Bureau Association (CBA) has said that e-toll judgments may not be reflected on your credit profile, but that still doesn’t mean you can ignore a summons.
Recently the Electronic Toll Collection Company was reported as saying that anyone against whom an e-toll default judgment was granted would be blacklisted. However, the CBA has made it clear that credit bureaus are not entitled to load judgments related to e-tolls onto consumers’ profiles.
The CBA said that the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Act 3 of 2013, which amended the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) and National Roads Act 7 of 1998, specifically excludes the levying and collecting of e-tolls from the provisions of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005.
According to the CBA, those who are aware of information relating to an e-tolls judgment on their consumer profiles may contact any of the following credit bureaus to lodge a dispute and have the information removed: Compuscan, Consumer Profile Bureau, Experian, TransUnion, Vericred, or Xpert Decision Systems
Outa welcomes this clarification from CBA. Outa remains committed to ending Gauteng’s irrational e-tolls permanently, and is managing almost 2 000 cases on behalf of its supporters against Sanral. They are in the advanced stages of the test case.
Motorists are advised not to ignore a Sanral summons related to e-toll debts and if they have any queries, to check Outa’s website or contact them on etollqueries@outa.co.za.
