ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
Record and certificate of
Ord. No. 45/77
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of suspension, the motor vehicle shall thereupon be forfeited. to the Crown and may be sold or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Commissioner thinks fit.
26M. (1) The Commissioner shall keep a record of the registration mark of every motor vehicle in connexion alleged offences. with which any person is alleged to have committed an
offence specified in the First Schedule.
First Schedule.
Commissioner of Police
(2) The Commissioner shall, on application made to him in such manner as he may determine, issue a certificate stating whether or not at the time of the issue of the certificate any person is, according to the record maintained under subsection (1), alleged to have committed an offence specified in the First Schedule in connexion with the motor vehicle bearing the registration mark specified in the application.
(3) A certificate issued under subsection (2) shall be valid for 72 hours from the time of issue.
26N. For the purposes of section 26M the Commis- sioner of Police shall notify the Commissioner of every information for alleged offence specified in the First Schedule.
to supply
the record.
First Schedule.
Removal of registration mark from the record. First Schedule.
Application of sections 26F to 26L.
First Schedule.
First Schedule.
Service of notices.
260. Where a person who is alleged to have committed an offence specified in the First Schedule in connexion with a motor vehicle the registration mark of which has been recorded under section 26M-
(a) is not prosecuted for that offence;
(b) is found not guilty of that offence;
(c) has his conviction for that offence quashed on
appeal,
the Commissioner shall forthwith remove from the record the registration mark of the motor vehicle concerned.
26P. (1) Sections 26F to 26L shall not apply or shall cease to apply where a motor vehicle is sold or otherwise disposed of and the new registered owner is, at the time of delivery of notice of transfer of ownership in accordance with the regulations, in possession of a valid certificate issued by the Commissioner under section 26M to the effect that at the time of issue, no person was alleged to have com- mitted an offence specified in the First Schedule in respect of that motor vehicle.
(2) Subject to subsection (1), sections 26F to 26L shall apply notwithstanding that a transfer of the ownership of a motor vehicle has been registered by the Commissioner after the driver of the motor vehicle has committed an offence specified in the First Schedule in connexion with that vehicle.
26Q. Any notice required under this Part to be served on the registered owner of a motor vehicle may be served on him in person or by forwarding it by registered post or recorded mail to him at the address shown in the register of motor vehicles maintained by the Commissioner under the regulations.
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