Section 34Part 3 — Licensing of Drivers of Vehicles
Driving with uncorrected defective eyesight
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Subject to subsection (2), a person who drives a vehicle on a road while that person's eyesight is such that that person cannot comply with a requirement as to eyesight prescribed under this Part for the purpose of tests of competence to drive commits an offence.
Subsection (1) applies whether or not the defect is one which cannot be, or which is not for the time being, sufficiently corrected.
The Director or a constable having reason to suspect that a person driving a vehicle may have committed an offence under this section may require that person to submit to a test for the purpose of ascertaining whether, using no other means of correction than that person used at the time of driving, that person can comply with the requirement concerned, and if that person refuses to submit to the test that person commits an offence.
A person who is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of six hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term of six months, or to both, and, in addition, the particulars of the conviction shall be endorsed on that person's driving record.