Unlawful entry into specified entry point
7.—(1)  Subject to paragraphs (3) and (6), any person who during the restricted hours rides, drives or moves a motor vehicle into a specified entry point on a specified road when —
(a)there is no in-vehicle unit installed in the vehicle;
(b)the in-vehicle unit in the vehicle has not been properly installed in accordance with the Second Schedule;
(c)the in-vehicle unit installed in the vehicle is defective;
(d)the in-vehicle unit installed in the vehicle has been unlawfully taken from another motor vehicle;
(e)the in-vehicle unit in the vehicle has been installed, repaired, tampered with, adjusted, altered or modified in contravention of rule 4;
(f)no ERP card with sufficient stored value to pay the road‑user charge payable has been properly inserted in the in‑vehicle unit of the vehicle; or
(g)the ERP card being used by the person with the in-vehicle unit is a forgery or is defective,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
(2)  Where the Registrar has reason to believe that a person has not made payment of the applicable road-user charge in the manner required under rule 6(1), the Registrar may by notice in writing require the person to pay, within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the notice, the road-user charge incurred by him and ––
(a)in a case where payment is made directly to the Authority or at any post office (whether by cheque, cash or NETS), an administrative charge of $10; or
(b)in a case where payment is made in any other manner specified in the notice, an administrative charge of $8.
(3)  If a person makes payment of the road-user charge and administrative charge in accordance with paragraph (2), the person shall not be guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(f).
(4)  The Registrar may, in the Registrar’s discretion, waive in whole or in part the administrative charge referred to in paragraph (2).
(5)  Any person who, during the restricted hours, rides, drives or moves a motor vehicle from an area outside a specified entry point on a specified road to an area within the specified entry point in such a manner as to avoid riding, driving or moving the motor vehicle into the specified entry point and thereby evades payment of the road-user charge levied in respect of that specified entry point shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(6)  It is a defence in any prosecution for a contravention of, or non-compliance with —
(a)paragraph (1)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) for the person charged to prove to the satisfaction of the court that he or she did not know nor could reasonably have discovered the contravention or non-compliance referred to in the charge; or
(b)paragraph (1)(c), (e) or (g) involving the use of a defective in-vehicle unit or a defective ERP card, as the case may be, for the person charged to prove to the satisfaction of the court that the defect in the in-vehicle unit or ERP card occurred through no fault of his or hers in the course of the journey during which the offence was committed.