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(2) In any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance, a certificate in the form set out in Form 2 of Schedule 2 purporting to be signed by a police officer and certifying that a person specified in the certificate stated to the police officer-
(a) that a particular motor vehicle was being driven or used by, or belonged to, that person on a particular occasion; or
(b) that a particular motor vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a firm in which that person also stated that he was at the time of the statement a partner; or
(c) that a particular motor vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a corporation of which that person also stated that he was at the time of the statement a director, officer or employee,
shall be admissible as evidence for the purpose of determining by whom the vehicle was being driven or used, or to whom it belonged, as the case may be, on that occasion.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall be deemed to make a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence except in a case where and to the like extent to which oral evidence to the like effect would have been admissible in those proceedings.
(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall be deemed to make a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence-
(a) unless a copy thereof has, not less than 7 days before the hearing or trial, been served on the person charged with the offence; or
(b) if that person, not later than 3 days before the hearing or trial or within such further time as the court may in special circumstances allow, serves a notice in the form set out in Form 3 of Schedule 2 on the prosecutor requiring attendance at the trial of the person who signed the certificate.
(5) A certificate or other document required by subsection (4) to be served on any person may be served-
(a) by delivering it personally to the person to be served, or by addressing it to him and leaving it at, or sending it by registered post to his last or usual place of abode or place of business; or
(b) in the case of a body corporate, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the body at its registered or principal office or by sending it by registered post addressed to the secretary or clerk of that body at that office.
74. Certificate as to registered owner of vehicle or holder of driving licence
(1) A document purporting-
1989 Ed.]
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(2) In any proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance, a certificate in the form set out in Form 2 of Schedule 2 purporting to be signed by a police officer and certifying that a person specified in the certificate stated to the police officer-
(a) that a particular motor vehicle was being driven or used by, or
belonged to, that person on a particular occasion; or
(b) that a particular motor vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a firm in which that person also stated that he was at the time of the statement a partner; or
(c) that a particular motor vehicle on a particular occasion was used by, or belonged to, a corporation of which that person also stated that he was at the time of the statement a director, officer or employee,
shall be admissible as evidence for the purpose of determining by whom the vehicle was being driven or used, or to whom it belonged, as the case may be, on that occasion.
(3) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall be deemed to make a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence except in a case where and to the like extent to which oral evidence to the like effect would have been admissible in those proceedings.
(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall be deemed to make a certificate admissible as evidence in proceeding for an offence-
(a) unless a copy thereof has, not less than 7 days before the hearing
or trial, been served on the person charged with the offence; or
(b) if that person, not later than 3 days before the hearing or trial or within such further time as the court may in special circumstances allow, serves a notice in the form set out in Form 3 of Schedule 2 on the prosecutor requiring attendance at the trial of the person who signed the certificate.
(5) A certificate or other document required by subsection (4) to be served on any person may be served-
(a) by delivering it personally to the person to be served, or by addressing it to him and leaving it at, or sending it by registered post to his last or usual place of abode or place of business; or (b) in the case of a body corporate, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the body at its registered or principal office or by sending it by registered post addressed to the secretary or clerk of that body at that office.
74. Certificate as to registered owner of
vehicle or holder of driving licence
(1) A document purporting-
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