Scrap ‘saman ekor’ before law change, says PAS veep

By Boo Su-Lyn

January 20, 2011

Mahfuz said the amendments would disadvantage those with outstanding postal summonses. — file pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — PAS vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar today urged the government to scrap the outstanding postal summonses before implementing planned amendments to the Road Transport Act 1987 (RTA).

Mahfuz said the postal summonses, or “saman ekor”, should be written off as they allegedly did not follow legal procedures.

“In the planned amendments to the RTA, photographs can be used as evidence in court,” Mahfuz told reporters today.

“Before these planned amendments, everything could be questioned. So, the summonses issued then are not fair,” he added.

About 10 million such summonses have reportedly been issued since 2000.

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