Acts and Regulations

M-17 - Motor Vehicle Act

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Offences respecting financial responsibility cards and motor vehicle liability insurance cards
280Any person who
(a) produces to the Registrar or to a peace officer
(i) a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that there is in force a policy of insurance that is, in fact, not in force,
(ii) a financial responsibility card or motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that he is at that time maintaining in effect proof of financial responsibility as required by this Act when such is not the case, or
(iii) a financial responsibility card or a motor vehicle liability insurance card purporting to show that the person named in the card as the insured is, at the time of an accident in which a motor vehicle is in any manner, directly or indirectly involved, insured in respect of loss resulting from that accident and occasioned by the operation or use of that motor vehicle, when such is not the case;
(a.1) provides or causes to be provided to the Registrar, by any means, information purporting to show that there is in force a policy of insurance that is, in fact, not in force;
(b) fails to deliver to the Registrar as required by subsection 279(5), a financial responsibility card or any additional card issued to him pursuant to that section; or
(c) gives or loans to a person not entitled to have the same any card issued under subsection 279(2),
is guilty of an offence under this Act.
1955, c.13, s.252; 1995, c.18, s.3