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Ordinance makes any false statement or withholds any material information, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for six months and to a fine of one thousand dollars.
(3) If any person issues a certificate of insurance or certi- ficate of security which is to his knowledge false in any material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for six months and to a fine of two thousand dollars.
(4) If any police officer has reasonable cause to believe that any certificate of insurance or certificate of security produced to him in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance by the driver of a motor vehicle is a document in relation to which an offence under this section has been committed, he may seize the document, and thereon the person producing such document shall on being required by a police officer inform him of the means by which and the person from whom he obtained possession of such document and it shall be an offence to give information which is false or withhold material information and such person shall be liable to imprisonment for six months and to a fine of one thousand dollars.
(5) In this section, the expressions "certificate of insurance' and "certificate of security" include any document issued under regulations made under this Ordinance to prescribe evidence- which may be produced in lieu of a certificate of insurance or a certificate of security.
(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the liability of any person to trial and punishment for any offence against any other enactment; Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same act or omission.
18. Where the driver of a vehicle is alleged to be guilty of of informe an offence under the Ordinance— tion to the
police.
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c. 48, s. 113.
(a) the owner of the vehicle shall give such information as:
he may be required by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police to give as to the identity of the driver, and,. if he fails to do so shall be guilty of an offence, unless he shows to the satisfuction of the court or magistrate tha! he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver was; and
(b) any other person shall, if required as aforesaid, give any information which it is in his power to give and which may lead to the identification of the driver, and, if he fails to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence.
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18. (1) Any person on conviction of an offence under this Ofences Ordinance shall, unless a penalty is otherwise specifically pro- And
general vided, be liable to imprisonment for three months and to a fine penalty. of one thousand dollars.
(2) Where a person is, by virtue of any power contained in this Ordinance or in any regulations made thereunder, re- quired to do or to abstain from doing any act or thing and makes default in complying with any such requisition, it shall be lawful for the court or magistrate on conviction, in addition to imposing any pennity, to order such person to comply with such requisition and to annex to any such order any condition as to time or mode of action or otherwise which it may think neces- sary to enforce compliance therewith.
(3) Every person who makes default in complying with any such order of the court or magistrate may, in the discretion of the court, be ordered to pay by way of a penalty a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every day during which he is there- after in default or to be imprisoned, until he has remedied his default: Provided that any such person shall not for such non- compliance be liable to the payment of any sums amounting in the aggregate to more than one thousand dollars in addition to any other fine or term of imprisonment to which he may other- wise be liable.
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20. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations Regula. for prescribing anything which may be prescribed under this Ordinance, and generally for the purpose of carrying this Ordin- Geo. 8. ance into effect, and in particular, but without prejudice to the 48. *. 41. generality of the foregoing provisions, may make regulations-
(a) as to the forms to be used for the purposes of this
Ordinance;
(5) as to applications for, and the issue of, certificates of insurance and certificates of security and any other documents which may be prescribed, and as to the keep- ing of records of documents and the furnishing of particulars thereof, or the giving of information with respect thereto, and as to the furnishing of copies of certificates of insurance and of certificates of security in respect of the obtaining or renewal of a licence under the Vehicle and Road Traffic Ordinance, and the regula (Gap, 220). tions made thereunder;
(c) as to the issue of copies of any such certificates or other
documents which are lost or destroyed;
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