C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 596.5 Disposition versions

2008-06-12

596.5. (Repealed).

1996, c. 56, s. 122; 2008, c. 14, s. 83.

1996-12-23

596.5. The accident report, the notice enjoining the owner or driver of a road vehicle to submit the vehicle to mechanical inspection or to have the necessary repairs made, the certificate of mechanical inspection and the document evidencing a juridical fact or a juridical act relating to the registration of a vehicle or to a licence authorizing the driving of a road vehicle shall, to be produced as evidence in their electronic or hard copy form, conform to the security standards for electronic data and documentation in penal matters established by regulation under paragraph 1.1 of article 367 of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1).

A prosecutor or defendant who produces, as evidence, the documents referred to in the first paragraph is not required to prove the integrity and accuracy of the document unless the opposite party shows, by preponderance of evidence, that the document has been altered since being stored in electronic form or was altered when the hard copy was produced.

A document referred to in the first paragraph is proof of its contents, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, if it is otherwise admissible in evidence.

1996, c. 56, s. 122.