Home Affairs identifies traffic ticket offences

The Ministry of Home Affairs has identified a number of offences for which a traffic ticket may be issued, particularly to operators of motor vehicles, including motor-cycles, bicycles and animal-drawn vehicles.

The offences come under the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act Cap. 51:02. and the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Regulations. Cap. 51:02, subsidiary legislation, for which they may be issued a ticket by a member of the Guyana Police Force, without having to report to a police station, an advertisement from the ministry in the Guyana Chronicle said. The offences are as follows:

Driving an uncertified motor vehicle
Driving a motor vehicle without a driver’s licence
Failing to Produce Driver’s Licence
Refusing to declare present address
Breaching of conditions of provisional licence
Speeding (Exceeding Speed Limit)
Permitting more than one trailer to be drawn
Failing to stop when required by police in uniform
Leaving motor vehicle in dangerous position
Driving motorcycle without safety helmet
Driver carrying pillion-rider without safety helmet
Failing to exhibit certificate of fitness
Failing to exhibit licence for motor vehicle
Unlighted motor vehicle (front)
Unlighted motor vehicle (rear)
Unlighted motorcycle/bicycle (front)
Unlighted motorcycle/bicycle (rear)
Unlighted animal drawn vehicle (front)
Unlighted animal drawn vehicle (rear)
Failing to carry lamp on handcart during hours of darkness
No parking brake
No reflecting mirror
No warning appliance on motor vehicle
No silencer
No efficient automatic windscreen wiper
No efficient speedometer (hire car, motor lorry, motor bus)
Unnecessary sounding of horn
No trailer to be drawn by bus/hire car
Carrying more persons than the permitted number
More persons on the front seat than the number fixed to be carried thereon
Conductor (overload)
Conduct of driver and conductor (breach)
Stopping within  30  feet from any corner
No efficient brakes on bicycle and tricycle
No warning appliance on bicycle and tricycle