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Section 196: Non-payment under section 195

Road Traffic Act

This section is inserted by Act No 17 of 2012, section 18.

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196. Non-payment under section 195 Where the owner or driver of a motor vehicle, as the case may be, who is served with a PEDN fails to pay the specified penalty within 21 days of the date of issue of the PEDN, he shall – (a) be presumed to have been the driver of the vehicle at the time of the offence; and (b) where criminal proceedings are instituted against him for the offence in respect of which he was served with the PEDN, be liable, on conviction, to a fine which shall not be less than twice the amount specified in the Eighth Schedule together with the prescribed penalty points in respect of that offence.

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