(1) If, with intent to deceive, any person—
(a) forges within the meaning of the Criminal Code issues, alters, uses, lends to or allows to be used by any other person, a certificate of insurance within the meaning of this Act; or
(b) makes or has in his or her possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,
he or she commits an offence and is liable summarily to a fine of $5,000 or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding 18 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) If any person for the purpose of obtaining the issue of a certificate of insurance under this Act makes any false statement or withholds any material information, he or she is liable summarily to a fine of $1,000 or to imprisonment for a period of 6 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) If any police officer has reasonable cause to believe that any certificate of insurance produced to him or her in pursuance of the provisions of this Act by the driver of a motor vehicle is a document in relation to which an offence under this section has been committed he or she may seize the document.
(4) When any document is seized under this section, the person from whom it was taken shall, unless previously charged with an offence under this section, be summoned before a court of summary jurisdiction to account for his or her possession of the document, and the court shall make such order respecting the disposal of the document and award such costs as the justice of the case may require.
(5) In this section the expression “certificate of insurance” includes any document issued under regulations made under the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act under the provisions of section 8 to prescribe evidence which may be produced in lieu of a certificate of insurance.