1. Any reservations the Committees may have had, with the introduction of the proposed new motor vehicle allowances for magistrates and senior magistrates, were outweighed by the individual and collective weight afforded three factors that are relevant in regard to the approval of such allowances. Firstly, the President of the Republic of South Africa indicated in Notice 46 of 2005 and the attached Schedule that he favoured the granting of such an allowance to magistrates and senior magistrates. Secondly, the Minister of Finance indicated his preparedness to appropriate the budget allocation of approximately R157million to defray the expenditure related to the proposed new motor vehicle allowances for magistrates and senior magistrates, in terms of section 213(2)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, read with section 12(4) of the Magistrates Act. Thirdly, the relevant government departments are in the process of developing a remunerative structure based on parity and synergy to negate the adverse consequences of magistrates' salaries and benefits being raised to disparate levels, with the consequent destabilising effects this has on other institutions of justice, especially the National Prosecuting Authority.