
Seat belts have been designed to prevent serious injury or death and as an Ontario Driver, you can be pulled over and given a ticket for not wearing one. If convicted, a seat belt charge can lead to you paying a higher insurance rate and demerit points implications for your Driving Record.
Our Traffic Ticket Defenders can assist you in removing those Demerit Points. Find out how we fight Traffic Tickets by contacting us.
Here’s what you need to know:
No Person shall drive on a highway a motor vehicle in which a seat belt assembly required under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Canada) at the time that the vehicle was manufactured or imported into Canada has been removed, rendered partly or wholly inoperative, modified so as to reduce its effectiveness or is not operating properly through lack of maintenance.
HTA s. 106(4)
Driver to ensure young passenger uses seat belt assembly-No person shall drive on a highway a motor vehicle in which there is a passenger who is under 16 years old unless,
a) that passenger,
(i)occupies a seating position for which a seat belt assembly has been provided, and
(ii) is wearing the complete seat belt assembly as required by subsection (5); or
b) that passenger is required by the regulation to be secured by a child seating system or child restraint system, and is so secured.