ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 57
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 57
57 . Owner etc. of vehicle occasioning bodily harm etc. to help police identify driver etc.
(1) Where the use of a
motor vehicle has occasioned, or been an immediate or proximate cause of, the
death of a person or bodily harm to a person, a responsible person for the
vehicle and any person to whom the possession or control of the vehicle was
entrusted shall, if required by a police officer, give any information which
it is in his power to give which may lead to the identification of the person
who was driving or who was in charge or control of the vehicle at the time
when the use of the vehicle occasioned or was an immediate or proximate cause
of the death or bodily harm.
(2) A person who is
required under subsection (1) by a police officer to give information must not
in response to the request give false information.
Penalty: applicable to subsections (1) and (2), a
fine of 60 PU or imprisonment for 12 months.
[Section 57 amended: No. 105 of 1981 s. 19; No. 11
of 1988 s. 24; No. 50 of 1997 s. 13; No. 39 of 2000 s. 31; No. 39 of 2007 s.
21; No. 8 of 2012 s. 37.]
[ 58, 58A. Deleted: No. 8 of 2012 s. 12.]