Given seeing the purpose of the law of Road Traffic, it is prescribed that 'This law aims to guarantee safe and smooth traffic by preventing and removing all dangers and obstacles pertaining to the transportation being occurred on the road,' thus seve...
Given seeing the purpose of the law of Road Traffic, it is prescribed that 'This law aims to guarantee safe and smooth traffic by preventing and removing all dangers and obstacles pertaining to the transportation being occurred on the road,' thus several types of items for the legislation-violation actions and the relevant punishments are being stipulated as a means aiming at realizing the purpose like this.
Among them, as to a legislation violator who did commit a petty contravention with low possibility of blame and with the inevitability of frequent occurrence among legislation-violation actions, a system, for which a police chief gives notice of pecuniary restraint named "penalties" instead of a punishment such as penalties originally fixed, and terminates the procedure if the violator pays the settled penalties, is being operated and carried out.
A system similar to this is being adopted and carried out by a considerable number of foreign countries as well as our country because the system of noticed disposition like this has large effectiveness, such as being available for the expectation of effect to inflict punishment just by levying penalties without inflicting criminal punishment on a violator against the traffic legislation, and for indirectly forcing a violator into order observance on account of getting in person urging for alarming as to the legislation violation, through giving an economic burden to a violator, and in addition, as reducing a driver's burden due to swift and brief processing at the violation site as well as facilitating the effect of immediate punishment and the efficiency of administrative matters, and as contributing to the increase of national tax revenue.
However, in the face of having lots of positive aspects, the noticed disposition retains many problems.
First of all, in light of law enactment, first, the element to infringe on human rights is remaining, such as strong grounds to dispute about a violation with a violator, on account of general provisions of a violating behavior, and as the absence of a relief system being derived from the character of the noticed disposition, which is vaguely placed, with being neither punishment nor order punishment. Second, in case of disobeying crackdown, due to the trend of taking a serious view of human rights, there is a problem having difficulty in securing law enforcement and it may be resulted in abuse of discretion, in other words, in a mutual compromise between a policeman and a law violator, and third, there are problems such as the surging of consciousness tendency to regard it trivially as the private parts of luck for a violater regulated himself or herself.
Given considering the improvement plan from the forward-looking viewpoint of the existence of the noticed disposition,
First, above all, the noticed disposition will be required to legally and institutionally prescribe legal character. Doing that way will make the processing procedures decided, and bring stability to the law violators undergoing crackdown. Otherwise, as an alternative plan, it needs to keep on being developed as a new individual law in the fields of order violation. And second, it will need to guarantee legitimacy and rationality of law enforcement by policemen directly taking charge of control matters. It will need to elucidate concretely legal measures against disobedience to the control of the noticed disposition, and it will be also said to require the creation of two-way punishment provisions to inflict disadvantage on both a regulation agency and drivers, as far as compromising matters between a policeman and a law violator in the process of crackdown are concerned. Third, through simplifying procedures of the noticed disposition, it will require to escape the adverse criticism for the infringement of human rights being derived from the complicated procedures. Fourth, it will be the thing to improve the traffic surrounding environment to reduce to the utmost the possibility of making the traffic law violated, and to enhance drivers' order consciousness. Through improving and reinforcing traffic-security instruction of the national agencies and social groups, it will need to carry out more viably than now, and is desperately requiring publicity activities targeting the people for the purpose of restraining the violations of safety and legislation for transportation.