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Drivers and pillion riders of motor cycles to wear protective helmets

74.—(1) Every person who drives or is carried on a motor cycle shall wear securely on his head a protective helmet of a type approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(2) No person shall import, sell or offer for sale or have in his possession for sale any protective helmet which is not of a type approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police.

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[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(2A) Once a type of protective helmet is approved by the Deputy Commissioner of Police for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), he must, as soon as practicable, cause to be published in the Gazette a notification specifying each type of protective helmet so approved by him.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(2B) However, failure to comply with subsection (2A) in respect of any type of protective helmet does not invalidate the approval for that type of protective helmet.

[Act 28 of 2014 wef 01/02/2015]

(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200.

(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

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