Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Yes your right, there is no legal obligation, but actually the prosecutor can lower your ticket if you simply ask. It will be by their own judgment to let you off or not. Thats why we recommend to take in your driving abstract and try to get the "mercy" so to speak, of the court system.

Sometimes if they see the officer has already lowered the ...

Administrative licence suspension for blood alcohol concentration above .05
Determining whether to make a demand - 48


(1) A police officer, readily identifiable as such, may require the driver of a motor vehicle to stop for the purpose of determining whether or not there is evidence to justify making a demand under section 254 of the Criminal ...

Breath testing, novice drivers Application of subss. (2), (3) and (4) - 48.1

(1) Subsections (2) and (3) apply and subsection (4) does not apply if the police officer who stops a novice driver uses one screening device for the purposes of section 48 and another screening device for the purposes of this section, and subsection (4) applies and ...

Breath testing, driver accompanying novice - 48.2

(1) Where a police officer has brought a novice driver to a stop under the authority of this Act, and the police officer reasonably suspects that the accompanying driver has alcohol in his or her body, the police officer may, for the purposes of determining whether the novice driver is in ...

Suspension of licence, alcohol testing - 48.3

(1) Where a police officer is satisfied that a person driving or having the care, charge or control of a motor vehicle or operating or having the care or control of a vessel meets one of the criteria set out in subsection (3), the officer shall notify the Registrar of that fact, or cause the ...

Proceedings before Tribunal - 49

Subsections 210 (7), (8), (11) and (13) apply with necessary modifications to proceedings before the Tribunal with respect to appeals to the Tribunal under this Act. 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 24 (3).

Note: Despite the re-enactment of section 49 by the Statutes of Ontario, 1999, chapter 12, Schedule G, subsection ...

Appeal of suspension or cancellation of licence, etc. - 50

(1) Every person aggrieved by a decision of the Minister under subclause 32 (12) (b) (i) or a decision of the Registrar under section 17 or 47 may appeal the decision to the Tribunal. 2001, c. 9, Sched. O, s. 6 (1).

Note: On a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor ...

Appeal of ninety-day suspension - 50.1

(1) A person whose drivers licence is suspended under section 48.3 may appeal the suspension to the Tribunal. 1996, c. 20, s. 10; 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 24 (8).

Grounds for appeal

(2) The only grounds on which a person may appeal under subsection (1) and the only grounds on which the Tribunal may ...

Appeal of order to impound - 50.2

(1) The owner of a motor vehicle that is subject to an order to impound under section 55.1 may, upon paying the prescribed fee, appeal the order to the Tribunal. 1997, c. 12, s. 5; 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 24 (12).

Parties

(2) The owner and the Registrar are the parties to an appeal under this section. 1997 ...

Appeal of order to impound and suspend, commercial motor vehicles - 50.3

(1) The owner of a commercial motor vehicle or trailer that is subject to an order to impound and suspend under section 82.1 may, upon paying the prescribed fee, appeal the order to the Tribunal. 1997, c. 12, s. 6; 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 24 (14).

Parties

(2) The ...

Penalty for driving motor vehicle when permit suspended or cancelled - 51

Every person who drives a motor vehicle the permit for which is under suspension or has been cancelled is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than $200 and not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or ...

Service of notice of licence suspension - 52

(1) Where a persons drivers licence is suspended, notice of the suspension is sufficiently given if delivered personally or,

(a) in the case of a suspension under section 41 or 42, sent by registered mail addressed to the person to whom the licence was issued at the latest current address of the ...

Driving while drivers licence suspended - 53

(1) Every person who drives a motor vehicle or street car on a highway while his or her drivers licence is suspended under an Act of the Legislature or a regulation made thereunder is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable,

(a) for a first offence, to a fine of not less than $1,000 and not ...

Where person whose permit or licence suspended does not hold permit or licence - 54

Where by or under the provisions of an Act of the Legislature or a regulation made thereunder a permit or licence is suspended and the person to whom the suspension applies is not the holder of a permit or licence, as the case may be, the person shall be deemed ...

Suspension on appeal - 55

If a person whose licence has been suspended enters an appeal against his or her conviction and serves notice of the appeal on the Registrar, the suspension is stayed from the time notice is served on the Registrar unless the conviction is sustained on appeal. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 55; 1996, c. 33, s. 10.