108. The following new section is inserted immediately after section 224, and shall have effect as section 224A, of the principal enactment : -
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| | (1) Where proceedings have been instituted against any person in any Magistrate's Court in respect of any such offence under this Act as may be prescribed and where no accident involving damage to any property or injury to any other person has resulted from, of was occasioned by, the commission of that offence, the court may, notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure Act, No. 15 of 1979, to the contrary, issue to the first-mentioned person together with the summons a notice stating that it will not be necessary for such person to appear at the time and place specified in the summons if he on or before the date specified in the notice
| | | (a) by letter addressed to the Registrar of that court admits the commission of the offence, |
| (b) pays to the Registrar the amount specified in the notice, and |
| (c) sends to the Registrar his driving licence to enable the court to make an endorsement under section 136. |
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| | (2) The amount to be specified under para graph (b) of subsection (1) in the notice issued to any person under that subsection shall not exceed the amount which the court may lawfully impose as a fine for the offence referred to in the summons issued to that person. | | |
| | (3) Where a person to whom a notice has been issued by a court under subsection (1) complies with the provisions of the notice, the court shall record a verdict of guilty in relation to the offence specified in the summons issued to that person and sentence him to a fine equivalent to the amount paid by him in accordance with that notice and record that such line was paid by him. | | |
| | (4) In this section " Magistrate's Court" includes a Municipal Magistrate's Court.'. | | |
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