Section 175: Certificate of ownership or driver admissible

175. Certificate of ownership or driver admissible (1) In any proceedings for an offence under this Act, a certificate in the prescribed form— (a) purporting to be signed by a road transport inspector or by a police officer of or above the rank of Sergeant; and (b) certifying that a person specified in the certificate stated to the road transport inspector or to the police officer that a particular motor vehicle— (i) was being driven by, or belonged to, that person on a particular occasion; (ii) belonged, on a particular occasion, to a firm in which that person also stated that he was, at the time of the statement, a partner; or (iii) belonged, on a particular occasion, to a corporation of which that person also stated that he was, at the time of the statement, a director, officer or employee, shall be admissible as evidence for the purpose of determining by whom the vehicle was being driven, or to whom it belonged, as the case may be, on that occasion. (2) This section shall not be deemed to make a certificate admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence— (a) unless a copy of the certificate has, not less than 7 days before the hearing or trial, been served on the person charged with the offence; or (b) where the person charged with the offence— (i) not later than 3 days before the hearing or trial; or (ii) within such additional time as the Court may, in special circumstances, allow, serves notice on the prosecutor requiring the attendance at the trial of the person who signed the certificate.