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Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

  1. Permission to tint glass on motor vehicles.
  2. Prohibition of tinted glass on motor vehicles.
  3. Duty of buyer to change glass.
  4. Penalties, etc.
  5. Jurisdiction.
  6. Short title.

An Act to prohibit the tinting or treating in any other way any glass fitted in a mo-
tor vehicle so as to render persons in the vehicle obscure or invisible.

[1991 No. 6.]

[8th February, 1991]

[Commencement.]

  1. Permission to tint glass on motor vehicles
(1) Except with the permission of the appropriate authority designated for the pur- poses of this Act and for such good cause as may be determined from time to time by the appropriate authority, no person shall cause any glass fitted on a motor vehicle to be-
(a) tinted; or
(b) shaded; or
(c) coloured lightly or thickly; or
(d) darkened; or
(e) treated in any other way,

so that the persons or objects in the motor vehicle are rendered obscure or invisible.
(2) In this section “good cause” means health or security reasons.

  1. Prohibition of tinted glass on motor vehicles
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law or enactment any person who without the permission of the appropriate authority-
(a) causes any glass fitted on a motor vehicle to be treated in any manner specified in section 1 (1) of this Act;
(b) does or omits to do any act for the purpose of enabling or aiding another per- son to tint, shade, colour, darken or treat in any other way any glass fitted on a motor vehicle in any manner specified in section 1 (1) of this Act;
(c) aids another person in tinting, shading, colouring, darkening or treating in any other way any glass fitted on a motor vehicle in any manner specified in sec- tion I (1) of this Act; or
(d) counsels or procures any other person to tint, shade, colour, darken or treat in any other way, any glass fitted on a motor vehicle,

commits an offence under this Act and shall be punished in the manner set out in this Act.

(2) Any person who commits an offence under paragraph (d) or subsection (1) of this section may himself be charged with tinting, shading colouring, darkening or treating in any other way the glass fitted on the motor vehicle or with counselling or procuring the tinting, shading, colouring, darkening or treating in any other way the glass fitted on the motor vehicle.

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