32. Infringement notices---(1) Where the Director or any person duly
authorised by the Director, or any constable or traffic officer,
observes a person committing an infringement offence or has reasonable
cause to believe such an offence is being or has been committed by that
person, an infringement notice in respect of that offence may be issued
to that person by the Director or the authorised person.
(2) An infringement notice may be served---
(a) By delivering it personally to the person who appears to have
committed the infringement offence; or
(b) By sending it by post addressed to him or her at his or her last
known place of residence or business; or
(c) Where the person is a holder of a land transport document, by
serving it by post on that person at his or her last address for
service provided for the purposes of that document.
(3) For the purposes of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, an
infringement notice sent to a person by post under paragraph (b) or
paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of this section shall be deemed to have
been served on the person when it would have been delivered in the
ordinary course of post.
(4) Every infringement notice shall be in the prescribed form and
shall contain the following particulars:
(a) Such details of the alleged infringement offence as are sufficient
fairly to inform a person of the time, place, and nature of the
alleged offence:
(b) The amount of the infringement fee for that offence:
(c) The address at which the infringement fee may be paid:
(d) The time within which the infringement fee shall be paid:
(e) A summary of the provisions of section 21 (10) of the Summary
Proceedings Act 1957:
(f) A statement of the right of the person served with the notice to
request a hearing:
(g) A statement of the consequences if the person served with the
notice does not pay the infringement fee and does not make a
request for a hearing:
(h) Such other particulars as are prescribed in regulations made under
this Act.
(5) Different forms of infringement notices may be prescribed in
regulations made under this Act in respect of different kinds of
infringement offences.
(6) Where an infringement notice has been issued under this section,
proceedings in respect of the offence to which the notice relates may be
commenced in accordance with section 21 of the Summary Proceedings Act
1957, and in that case the provisions of that section shall, with the
necessary modifications, apply.