s.95Service of notice if fine is not paid
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Section 95Part 7 — Control of Road Users

Service of notice if fine is not paid

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95. (1) This section applies where a traffic ticket relating to an offence has been fixed to a vehicle under section 94.
Subject to subsection (3), if, at the end of the suspended period of enforcement with respect to a ticketing offence, the prescribed fine has not been paid in accordance with this Act or the regulations, a notice under this section may be served by the Commissioner on a person who appears to that Commissioner to be the owner of the vehicle.
A “notice to owner”, shall —
give particulars of the alleged offence and of the prescribed fine concerned;
state the period allowed for response to the notice, which shall not be less than twenty-one days from the date on which the notice is served; and
indicate that, if the prescribed fine is not paid before the end of that period, the person on whom the notice is served is asked to provide before the end of that period to the Commissioner a statement of ownership in the prescribed form.
A person on whom a notice to owner is served may, before the end of the period allowed for response to the notice, either —
give notice requesting a hearing in respect of the offence; or
if —
that person was not the driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged offence; and a hearing in respect of the offence, provide, together with the statement of ownership requested in that notice, a statement of facts in the prescribed form, which shall operate as a notice given by the driver requesting a hearing in respect of the offence.
a person purporting to be the driver wishes to give notice requesting
A person who, in response to a notice to owner, provides a statement which is false in a material particular and does so recklessly or knowing it to be false in that particular commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term of three months, or to both. Section 96 Traffic Act (2026 Revision) Page 70 Revised as at 31st December, 2025 c

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