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(1) A person who drives a motor vehicle on a road while that person cannot comply with any requirement as to eyesight prescribed under this Part for the purposes of a test of competence to drive, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 250 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or to both.

(2) Where a police officer suspects that a person driving a motor vehicle is likely to commit an offence under subsection (1), the officer may require that person to submit to a test for the purpose of ascertaining whether, using no other means of correction than the person used at the time of driving, the person can comply with the requirement concerned.

(3) A person who refuses to submit to the test commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100 penalty units or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.