Section 70Part 7 — Control of Road Users
Seat belts
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70. (1) The Cabinet may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, in relation to the need for persons who are driving or riding in vehicles on a road to wear seat belts and, in particular, regulations may provide for —
different provisions in relation to different categories of vehicles, different descriptions of persons and different circumstances;
exceptions for —
the users of vehicles constructed or adapted for the delivery of goods or mail to consumers or addresses while engaged in making local rounds of deliveries; reversing; and the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for that person to wear a seat belt;
the drivers of vehicles while performing a manoeuvre which includes
persons holding a valid certificate signed by a medical practitioner to
exceptions subject to conditions; and
cases in which a fee may be charged on an application for any certificate required as a condition of an exception.
A person who drives or rides in a vehicle in contravention of regulations made under subsection (1) commits an offence, but notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law, no person other than the person actually committing the contravention commits an offence by reason of the contravention.
If the holder of a certificate referred to in subsection (1)(b)(iii) is informed by a constable that that person may be prosecuted for an offence under subsection (2), that person is not, in proceedings for that offence, entitled to rely on the exception afforded to that person by the certificate unless it is produced to the constable at the time that person is so informed.