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22.(1) If any mark to be fixed or sign to be exhibited on a vehicle in accordance with section 19 or 21 is not so fixed or exhibited, the person driving the vehicle, or, where the vehicle is not being driven, the person keeping the vehicle, shall, subject to subsection (2), be guilty of an offence. (2) It shall be a defence for a person charged under subsection (1) with failing to fix a mark on a vehicle to prove (a)that he had no reasonable opportunity of registering the vehicle under this Act and that the vehicle was being driven on a public road for the purpose of being so registered; or (b)in a case where the charge relates to a vehicle whose use on roads is prohibited without a prescribed certificate, that he had no reasonable opportunity of so registering the vehicle and that the vehicle was being driven on a road for the purpose of, or in connection with, its examination for a prescribed certificate in circumstances in which its use is exempted from the said prohibition under any statutory provision. (3) If any mark fixed or sign exhibited on a vehicle as aforesaid is in any way obscured or rendered or allowed to become not easily distinguishable, the person driving the vehicle, or, where the vehicle is not being driven, the person keeping the vehicle, shall, subject to subsection (4), be guilty of an offence. (4) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) to prove that he took all steps reasonably practicable to prevent the mark or sign being obscured or rendered not easily distinguishable. (5) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #50.
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