Issue of traffic violation tickets

(1) Subject to these Regulations, the following persons are authorised to issue traffic violation tickets, namely– (a) a member of the Belize Police Department; Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic [CAP. 230 33 (b) a traffic warden; (c) a transport officer and motor vehicle inspector and examiner appointed under the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act; CAP. 230. (d) any other fit and proper person whom the Minister may, on the recommendations of the Commissioner of Transport or the City Administrator or Town Administrator, as the case may be, of the municipal authority, appoints for purpose of issuing traffic violation tickets; and (e) an authorized Justice of the Peace. (2) A traffic violation ticket may be issued by any of the persons specified in subregulation (1) above where a traffic offence is alleged to have, or suspected of having been committed. (3) A traffic violation ticket shall be affixed to the windscreen or some other conspicuous part of the vehicle to which the traffic offence relates or it may be issued directly to the person committing the traffic offence. (4) Any person who refuses to receive a traffic violation ticket from a person specified in subregulation (1), refuses to give his name and address, or gives a false name or address commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month or to both such fine and period of imprisonment.