s.3Users of vehicles to be insured against third party risks
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Users of vehicles to be insured against third party risks

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Subject to this Law, it shall not be lawful for any person to use, or to cause or permit any other person to use, a vehicle on a road, unless there is in force, in relation to the user of the vehicle by that person or that other person, as the case may be, such a policy of insurance in respect of third party risks as complies with this Law.
A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months, and a person convicted of such an offence shall (unless the Court for special reasons thinks fit to order otherwise and without prejudice to the power of the Court to order a longer period of disqualification) be disqualified for holding or obtaining a licence under the Traffic Law, 2011 [Law 26 of 2011] for twelve months from the date of the conviction.
A person disqualified under subsection (2) or under an order made thereunder for holding or obtaining a licence shall, for the purposes of the Traffic Law, 2011, be deemed to be disqualified by virtue of a conviction under that law, or any law amending or substituted for the same.
Notwithstanding any law prescribing a time within which proceedings may be brought before the Court, proceedings for an offence under subsection (2) may be brought —
within a period of six months from the date of the commission of the alleged offence; or
within a period which exceeds neither three months from the date on which it came to the knowledge of the prosecutor that the offence had been committed, nor one year from the date of the commission of the offence, whichever period is the longer.

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