29. Where a person is convicted of a criminal offence or an indictable offence referred to in section 26, the person’s taxi driver’s permit shall be revoked by operation of law and the judge pronouncing the conviction shall inform the person of the conviction and order that the permit be confiscated and returned to the Société or, where applicable, to the municipal or supramunicipal authority which issued it.
The notice may be given at the time of the decision or after the decision has been rendered. In any case, the date of confiscation is deemed to be the date of the conviction.