C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 196 Disposition versions

1991-11-14

196. Where the Société is informed that damage amounting to over $500 has been caused in an accident and it is not shown to its satisfaction that the owner of a road vehicle involved in the accident held, at the time of the accident, a liability insurance contract as required under the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25) for that vehicle, except where liability insurance is not required under the said Act, the Société shall suspend the learner’s licence and probationary licence or the driver’s licence of the owner and of the driver of the vehicle or, if they are not holders of a learner’s licence, probationary licence or driver’s licence, their right to obtain such a licence. In addition, it shall prohibit the putting back into operation of any road vehicle registered in the name of either person.

A suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled or the prohibition from putting a road vehicle back into operation must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Société that at the time of the accident, the uninsured vehicle was legally parked, in the possession of a third person who had acquired it by theft or taken it without permission, or in the possession of a third person for storage, repair or transportation or that only the uninsured vehicle or the movable effects it contained sustained damage in the accident.

With respect to the driver and to the owner, a suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled or the prohibition from putting a road vehicle back into operation must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Société that at the time of the accident, the driver was the owner of a road vehicle covered by a contract of liability insurance as required under the Automobile Insurance Act.

1986, c. 91, s. 196; 1990, c. 19, s. 11; 1990, c. 83, s. 87.

1990-06-22

196. Where the Société is informed that damage amounting to over $500 has been caused in an accident and it is not shown to its satisfaction that the owner of a road vehicle involved in the accident held, at the time of the accident, a liability insurance contract as required under the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25) for that vehicle, except where liability insurance is not required under the said Act, the Société shall suspend the licence or the right to obtain a licence of the owner and the driver of the vehicle, the registration of any road vehicle registered in the name of either as well as the right of either to obtain a registration.

A suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Société that at the time of the accident, the uninsured vehicle was legally parked, in the possession of a third person who had acquired it by theft or taken it without permission, or in the possession of a third person for storage, repair or transportation or that only the uninsured vehicle or the movable effects it contained sustained damage in the accident.

With respect to the driver, a suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Société that at the time of the accident, he was the owner of a road vehicle for which he held a liability insurance contract as required under the Automobile Insurance Act.

1986, c. 91, s. 196; 1990, c. 19, s. 11.

1987-06-29

196. Where the Régie is informed that damage amounting to over $500 has been caused in an accident and it is not shown to its satisfaction that the owner of a road vehicle involved in the accident held, at the time of the accident, a liability insurance contract as required under the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25) for that vehicle, except where liability insurance is not required under the said Act, the Régie shall suspend the licence or the right to obtain a licence of the owner and the driver of the vehicle, the registration of any road vehicle registered in the name of either as well as the right of either to obtain a registration.

A suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Régie that at the time of the accident, the uninsured vehicle was legally parked, in the possession of a third person who had acquired it by theft or taken it without permission, or in the possession of a third person for storage, repair or transportation or that only the uninsured vehicle or the movable effects it contained sustained damage in the accident.

With respect to the driver, a suspension under the first paragraph must not be imposed or must be cancelled where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Régie that at the time of the accident, he was the owner of a road vehicle for which he held a liability insurance contract as required under the Automobile Insurance Act.

1986, c. 91, s. 196.