Vehicle and Road Traffic.
may then hold or may subsequently obtain, shall be so endorsed until he becomes entitled under the provisions of this section to have a licence issued to him free from endorsement.
(2) Where an order is made requiring any licence held by an offender to be endorsed, then-
(a) if the offender is at the time the holder of a licence, he shall, if so required by the court or magistrate, produce the licence within five days or such longer time as the court or magistrate may determine for the purpose of endorsement; and
(b) if he is not then the holder of a licence, but subsequently obtains a licence to drive a motor vehicle he shall within five days after so obtaining the licence produce it to the court or magistrate for the purpose of endorsement,
and if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence; and if the licence is not produced for the purpose of endorsement within such time as aforesaid, it shall be suspended from the expiration of such time until it is produced for the purpose of endorsement.
(3) On the issue of a new licence to any person, the particulars endorsed on any previous licence held by him shall be copied on to the new licence unless he has previously become entitled under the provisions of this section to have a licence issued to him free from endorsement.
(4) If any person whose licence has been ordered to be endorsed and who has not previously become entitled under the provisions of this section to have a licence issued to him free from endorsement applies for or obtains a licence without giving particulars of the order, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for six months, and any licence so obtained shall be of no effect.
(5) Where a person in respect of whom an order has been made under this Ordinance, requiring the endorsement of any licence held by him, has during a continuous period of three years or upwards since the order was made had no such order made against him, he shall be entitled, either on applying for the grant of a licence under this Ordinance, or, subject to payment of a fee of five dollars and subject to surrender of any subsisting licence, at any time, to have issued
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