CHARGE DISMISSED
Alleged Failure To Give Information By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, March 16. Decision for defendant given by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in an action by the police against Jasper Lovell Nicolls, salesman New Brighton. Nicolls, who was represented, by Mr. C. S. Thomas, was charged under the Traffic Regulations. 1936 with failing to give information sought by the police. Legal argument was heard last month. In a reserved decision today dismissing the information the magistrate said that, though the Motor Vehivles Act left no doubt as to what must be done on demand by a traffic officer, there was a gap in the wording of the traffic regulations under which Nicolls was charged and that there was no onus, as in this case on the particular facts, to give information and so to be subject to penalty for failing to do so.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 11
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144CHARGE DISMISSED Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 11
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