Citation.
Inter- pretation.
Issue of
certificates
of
insurance And
security.
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(d) as to the custody, production, cancellation, and sur- render of any such certificates or other documents; (e) for providing that any provisions of this Ordinance shall, in relation to motor vehicles registered abroad and brought into this Colony for a limited period have effect subject to such modifications and adaptations as may be prescribed;
(f) as to the system of accounts to be kept, and the returns
to be furnished, by insurers.
(2) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and that a person guilty of such offence shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for seven days.
(3) The regulations in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be in force except so far as they may be rescinded or amended by regulations made under this section.
THE SCHEDULE,
(section 20)
PART I.
I. These regulations may be cited as the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Regulations, 1951.
In these regulations- "company" means an insurer as defined in section 2 of the Ordinance, or a body of persons by whom a security may be given in pursuance of the Ordinance; "policy" means such policy of insurance in respect of third party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles as com- plies with the requirements of the Ordinance and includes a covering note;
"security" means such security in respect of third party risks arising out of the use of motor vehicles as complies with the requirements of the Ordinance.
PART II.
3. (1) A company shall issue to every holder of a security or of a policy other than a covering note issued by the com- pany-
(a) in the case of a policy or security relating to a specified vehicle or to specified vehicles, a certificate of insurance
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in Form A, or a certificate of security in Form 1), set out in the Schedule to these regulations in respect of each such vehicle;
(b) in the case of a policy or security not relating to any specified vehicle or vebicles, such number of certificates in Form B or D, set out in the Schedule to these re- gulations as may be necessary to enable the require- ments of subsection (1) of section 16 of the Ordinance and of these regulations as to the production of evidence that a motor vehicle is not being driven in contravention of section 4 of the Ordinance to be complied with: Provided that where a security is intended to cover the use of more than ten motor vehicles at any one time, the company by whom it was issued may, with the consent of the Governor, issue one certificate only, and, where such consent has been given, the holder of the security may issue duplicate copies of such certificate, duly authenticated by him, up to such number and subject to such conditions as the Governor may determine.
(2) Every policy in the form of a covering note issued by a company shall have printed thereon, or on the back thereof, a certificate of insurance in Form C set out in the Schedule to these regulations.
4 (0) Every certificate of insurance ut certificate of Authentica- security shall be duly authenticated by or on behalf of the ban and company by whom it is issued.
(2) The certificate aforesaid shall be issued not later than four days after the date on which the policy or security is issued or renewed.
time of issue of certificates.
and
5. Where under the terms of a policy or security relating Issue of to a specified motor vehicle the holder is entitled to drive any certificates
further motor vehicle other than that specified without contravention of pr section 4 of the Ordinance, the company by whom the policy or
indurance security was issued may and shalt on demand being made to security. them by the holder issue to him a further certificate of insurance ¡in Form A or B, set out in the Schedule to these regulations, for a further certificate of security, as the case may be.
6. The following evidence that a motor vehicle is not being Production driven in contravention of section 4 of the Ordinance may be f
documents produced by the driver of such motor vehicle on the request of alternative a police officer in pursuance of section 16 of the Ordinance as an alternative to the production of a certificate of insurance or a certificate of security-
to
certificates.
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