Ticket offences

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93. A person who does any of the following commits an offence and is punishable under section 138 —

uses, without its prescribed registration plates, a vehicle for which registration is required under this Act;

holds on to a vehicle on a road for the purpose of being towed by it;

throws an object at a vehicle or a person in a vehicle;

throws an object from a vehicle while the vehicle is in motion on a road;

uses a vehicle designed to be used with a silencer, without a silencer or with a silencer that is in an unsound condition;

uses a vehicle with its engine in such a condition that it gives out excessive or obnoxious smoke, fumes, noise or odour;

uses a horn or other audible warning device on a vehicle excessively or in such a way as to cause unnecessary discomfort to another person;

uses a spotlight or flashing headlights in such away as to endanger or dazzle another person;

obstructs or fails to give way to an emergency vehicle;

fails to give ample clearance to a school vehicle or overtakes such vehicle while it is engaged in setting down or picking up passengers;

leaves a vehicle unattended with the engine running;

brings or drives a vehicle, other than an invalid carriage, on to a beach or other place intended for the exclusive use of pedestrians unless specially authorised by the Commissioner;

parks a vehicle other than a pedal cycle at night on the carriageway of a road unless that vehicle has its rear lights and, in the case of a vehicle other than a motorcycle, its side lights illuminated;

being the owner or person in control of a vehicle, causes or permits it to stand or lie on a road or footpath so as to cause unnecessary obstruction or danger to persons using the road or footpath;

uses or keeps on a road a vehicle required to be licensed under this Act;

is in breach of construction and use regulations;

is in breach of that person’s duties as a driver under section 68;

parks a vehicle other than a taxi or omnibus in a taxi rank;

fails to give way to a pedestrian making use of a pedestrian crossing;

parks or loads a vehicle on a road in contravention of section 108; or Section 94 Traffic Act (2026 Revision) Page 68 Revised as at 31st December, 2025 c

parks a vehicle within forty-five feet of the approach to a pedestrian crossing designated under section 110;

parks or loads a vehicle where there is a yellow line on the roadside or at the road centre;

carries an unauthorised pillion passenger on a motor cycle for which the driver has only a provisional licence or on a pedal cycle;

drives a vehicle with a load which overhangs the vehicle or which is carried on the vehicle in a manner which is likely to cause danger to other road users;

tows a vehicle in a manner which is likely to cause danger to other road users;

fails to wear a seat belt contrary to regulations made under Part 7; (aa) drives or parks a vehicle or causes an obstruction or uses a badge contrary to section 119; (bb) rides a motor cycle without a crash helmet; manner a valid vehicle licence; (cca) fails to display a registration plate on the front and back of the exterior part of the vehicle in the prescribed manner; 85 (ccb) have at the same time two or more different registration plates on the same prescribed place of a vehicle; 86 87 (ccd) fails to display a vehicle licence or coupon on a vehicle; 88 (cce) uses or operates a compression release engine brake, compression brake, decompression brake or such other type of braking device for any purpose other than as an emergency braking device for a vehicle or for a purpose that is not part of the safe operation of a vehicle; 89 or (dd) contravenes section 78.

uses or keeps a vehicle without displaying on the vehicle in the prescribed

displays different registration plates on the front and back of a vehicle;

Traffic Act

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