Weighing
of motor vebicles, etc.
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(b) whom he reasonably suspects to have been involved in
an accident on a road; or
(c) whom he reasonably suspects to have committed an offence under this Ordinance or under any regulations made thereunder; or
(d) whom he has reasonable cause to believe to have know- ingly made a false statement for the purpose of obtaining the grant of the driving licence.
(2) If any condition of a driving licence requires the holder of that licence while driving or learning to drive a motor vehicle to be under supervision of or to be accompanied by the holder of a driving licence a police officer may at any time require the person accompanying to produce his driving licence for examina- tion.
(3) Any person who fails to produce his driving licence immediately when asked for it or, alternatively, if when he was required to produce it, he had not got it in his possession, to bring it, in person within seventy-two hours after its production was so required to such police station as he shall have specified at the time its production was required, shall be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
(4) Any person who obstructs any police officer in the exercise of any powers conferred under this Ordinance or who refuses to answer or answers falsely any inquiry authorized to be made by a police officer under subsection (8) of section 9 shall, without prejudice to any other provisions of this Ordinance, be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
PART VI
Miscellaneous.
28. (1) Subject to the provisions of any other enactment, any police officer in uniform may require the person in charge of any motor vehicle to allow the motor vehicle or any trailer drawn
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thereby to be weighed, either laden or unladen, and the weight transmitted to the road by any part of the motor vehicle or trailer in contact with the road to be tested, and for that purpose to proceed to a weigh-bridge or other machine for weighing vehicles :
Provided that it shall not be lawful for any police officer to require the person in charge of a motor vehicle to unload the motor vehicle or trailer, or to cause or allow it to be unloaded, for the purpose of being weighed unladen.
(2) Where a motor vehicle or trailer is weighed under this section and the weight is found to be within the limits authorized by law, a certificate of weight shall be given to the person in charge of the motor vehicle and the certificate so given shall exempt the motor vehicle and the trailer, if any, from being weighed so long as it is during the continuance of the same journey carrying the same load.
(3) Any person in charge of a motor vehicle refuses or neglects to comply with any requirement made in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
29. (1) Any person who-
(a) forges within the meaning of the Forgery Ordinance, or alters or uses or lends to or allows to be used by any other person any licence, permit, certificate or other document issued under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made thereunder; or
(b) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a licence, permit, certificate or other document as to be calculated to deceive,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining the issue of any driving licence, vehicle licence, permit, certificate or other document, under the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made thereunder, to himself or to any other person or
Forgery etc. of licences. (Cap. 209).