C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 439.1 Disposition versions

2018-06-30

439.1. (Repealed).

2007, c. 40, s. 58; 2012, c. 15, s. 15; 2018, c. 7, s. 114.

2012-06-06

439.1. No person may, while driving a road vehicle, use a hand-held device that includes a telephone function.

For the purposes of this section, a driver who is holding a hand-held device that includes a telephone function is presumed to be using the device.

This prohibition does not apply to drivers of emergency vehicles in the performance of their duties.

The first paragraph does not apply to a two-way radio, that is to say a cordless voice communication device which does not allow the parties to speak simultaneously.

The Minister may, by order, determine other situations or types of devices to which the prohibition set out in the first paragraph does not apply.

2007, c. 40, s. 58; 2012, c. 15, s. 15.

2008-04-01

439.1. No person may, while driving a road vehicle, use a hand-held device that includes a telephone function.

For the purposes of this section, a driver who is holding a hand-held device that includes a telephone function is presumed to be using the device.

This prohibition does not apply to drivers of emergency vehicles in the performance of their duties.

2007, c. 40, s. 58.