The Credit Bureau Association (CBA) has laid to rest concerns about blacklisting for e-toll defaulters.
This follows recent reports by Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) that anyone against whom an e-toll default judgment had been granted would be blacklisted.
The CBA has however made it clear that credit bureaus are not entitled to load judgments related to e-tolls onto consumers’ profiles.
The CBA says that the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Act of 2013, which amended the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act of 1998, specifically excludes the levying and collecting of e-tolls from the provisions of the National Credit Act of 2005.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has welcomed the clarification from CBA, adding that it is managing almost 2 000 cases on behalf of its supporters against Sanral. “We are in the advanced stages of the test case,” a spokesman said.
