I would like the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department to respond to my earlier query as to whether the Road Transport Department (JPJ) has been given the power to blacklist motorists who allegedly failed to pay their summons, or for that matter failed to respond to the police notice.

If so under what provision of what law has this power been given?

Recently, I read of an injustice to a motorist who attempted to renew his road tax but was told that he had been blacklisted for failure to settle some summons. To avoid any inconvenience he went and settled them and only after that he was allowed to renew his road tax.

After that he checked the so-called summons and discovered that some of them were not meant for him as they appear to be for vehicles that he did not own. Hasn't a grave injustice occurred here as he was forced by the JPJ to admit to offences he did not commit?

The blacklisting exercise by the JPJ, to me, is illegal as it amounts to forcing motorists to admit to offences which they may not have committed. This exercise also deprives a citizen from challenging the summons in court.

If the JPJ has such powers, say so and identify the provision, then everyone will accept the exercise and abide by it.