Display of licence
99(1)It is an offence for any person
(a)
to display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in his possession any cancelled, revoked, suspended, or fraudulently altered licence,
(b)
to lend his licence to any other person or knowingly permit the use thereof by another,
(c)
to display or represent as one’s own any licence not issued to him,
(d)
to fail or refuse to surrender to the Registrar upon his lawful demand any licence that has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled,
(e)
to use a false name or a name other than his own in any application for a licence or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact in any application, or
(f)
to permit any unlawful use of a licence issued to him.
99(2)In any prosecution for an offence under paragraph (1)(
a),
(a)
evidence that the person charged displayed or caused or permitted to be displayed or had in his possession, as the case may be, at the time of the alleged offence, a document that purported to be a licence issued to him, and
(b)
a certificate of the Registrar or Acting Registrar that at the time of the alleged offence the licence, as the case may be, of the person was cancelled, revoked or suspended,
shall be
prima facie evidence of the offence charged, and the burden of proving that he is not the person named or referred to in the certificate shall be upon the person charged.
99(3)In any prosecution for an offence under paragraph (1)(
a), a document that purports to be a certificate of the Registrar or Acting Registrar shall be admissible in evidence without proof of the signature thereto.
1955, c.13, s.87; 1959, c.23, s.6; 1961-62, c.62, s.26; 1972, c.48, s.1