S.L. 65.11 · Motor Vehicles Regulations (S.L. 65.11)
S.L. 65.11 Art. 74Leaving a motor vehicle on the road.
PART IV
(1) No motor vehicle may be left in any road in contravention of any parking regulations or in such a position or in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger or obstruction to other persons using the road.
(2) Photographs, film, video-recordings, electronic images or any other record produced by a prescribed parking monitoring device shall be admissible in evidence and shall constitute proof of their contents if they are accompanied by a certificate signed by a police officer or community officer (in the same or in another document) as to the circumstances of date, time and place in which the photograph, film, video-recording, electronic image or other record was produced.
(3) Any device referred to in sub-regulation (2) shall be a device prescribed by order of the Minister responsible for transport who may in any such order lay down any conditions as to the purposes for which, and the manner and other circumstances in which, the device is to be used.
(4) A document purporting to be a document, record or signed certificate of the kind mentioned in sub-regulation (2) shall be deemed to be such a document, record or certificate signed as aforesaid unless the contrary is proved.
(5) The owner of the vehicle who is identified in any document, record or signed certificate referred to in sub-regulation (2) shall be responsible for any crime, and or contravention proven by the said document, record or signed certificate unless when the crime and, or contravention was committed the driver of the vehicle had been stopped and identified by a Police officer or by an enforcement officer of the Authority or a community officer upon or immediately after the commission of the crime and, or contravention.
(6) Any image recorded by any means referred to in sub-regulation (2) may be converted from one format to another, transmitted, stored or reproduced by electronic or any other means that allows the recorded image to be reproduced in intelligible form including, without limitation, electronically.
(7) Where a recorded image has been stored in electronic format as provided in sub-regulation (2), the recorded image may be reproduced in paper format which shall have the same effect for all purposes as if it were an original document if the reproduction is certified to be such in the certificate mentioned in sub-regulation (2).
(8) Any device prescribed under sub-regulation (2) shall be deemed to have been functioning correctly at the time that any document or record referred to in the said sub-regulation (2) was produced by it, unless the contrary is proved.
(9) The person against whom a certificate under sub-regulation (2) is produced may require the attendance of the Police officer or enforcement officer of the Authority or community officer who signed the certificate for the purpose of cross-examination.
(10) For the purposes of sub-regulations (2) to (9), 'parking monitoring device' means a device prescribed under sub-regulation
(2) that is capable of photographing or capturing the image of a motor vehicle when in a stationary position
Wijzigingsgeschiedenis
- Amended by L.N. 110 of 2023