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(3) Where an order is made requiring the driving licence held by any person to be endorsed, then-
(a) if the person at the time is a holder of a driving licence he shall produce the driving licence within five days or such longer time as the court or magistrate may deter- mine for the purposes of endorsement; and (b) if he is not then the holder of a driving licence, but sub- sequently obtains a driving licence 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, on summary conviction, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars; and if the licence is not produced for the purpose of endorsement within such time as aforesaid, it shall be of no effect from the expiration of such time until it is produced for the purpose of endorsement.
(4) On the issue of a new driving licence to any person, the particulars endorsed on any previous driving licence held by hin shall be copied on to the new licence before the issue thereof unless the person has previously become entitled under the provisions of this section to have a driving licence issued to him free from endorsements.
(5) If any person whose driving licence has been ordered to be endorsed and who has not previously become entitled under the provisions of this section to have a driving licence issued to him free from endorsements applies for or obtains a driving licence without giving particulars of the order, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-
(4) on summary conviction, to a fine of one thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for three months; or
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of two thousand
dollars and to imprisonment for six months,
and any driving licence so obtained shall be of no effect.
(6) Particulars of a conviction endorsed on a driving licence shall be prima facie evidence of the conviction.
(7) When an order has been made in respect of a person under this Ordinance, or under any other enactment, requiring the endorsement of any driving licence held by him, he shall be
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entitled either on applying for the grant of a driving licence or for the renewal of a driving licence, to have issued to him a new driving licence free from endorsement if a period of not less than three years has elapsed since the last such order has been made against him.
(8) Where a driving licence has been endorsed and an appeal against an order is allowed or a conviction is quashed, being an order or conviction to which the endorsement relates, the proper officer of the court by which the appeal is allowed or the convic- tion is quashed shall send notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police.
PART V.
Reporting of Accidents, Identification etc.
24. (1) If in any case owing to the presence of a vehicle on Duty to a road an accident occurs whereby damage or injury is caused to stop in
the case of any person, vehicle, animal or thing, the driver of the vehicle Accidents. shall stop and--
(a) shall give to any police officer on demand and to any other person who on reasonable grounds requires him so
to do, the following particulars-
(1) his correct name and address;
(ii) the correct name and address of the owner of the vehicle; and
(ii) if the vehicle is a motor vehicle the identification mark or number of the vehicle; and
(b) shall, if-
or
(i) for any reason he does not give those particulars;
(ii) whether or not those particulars are given, the accident has, directly or indirectly, resulted in any injury to any person,
report the accident and give the particulars specified in paragraph (a) at a police station as soon as reasonably practicable but not in any event later than twenty-four hours after the occurrence of the accident.