A man who allegedly had illegally tinted windows on his car was charged under the wrong law in Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Crown counsel Cindy Clarke decided not to proceed with five charges against Pembroke resident Michael Ameshack Jones when she realised The Motor Car (Construction, Equipment and Use) Amendment Regulations 1952, under which he was charged, only made windscreens against the law.

Police spokesman Coleman Easton confirmed on Friday that windows with tints exceeding the 35 percent limit were, in fact, illegal.

The laws governing them came from a recent amendment to the 1952 regulations.

The amendment, passed in 1991, stated "...windscreens and all other windows shall not have affixed to them tinted film, sun shading material or other coloured material''.

Tinted windows Jones, 18, of Warehouse Lane, was stopped by Police on Wednesday and slapped with a ticket for each of the five side and rear tinted windows on his car.

This is the first time a case involving such offences has been heard in court since Police began a crackdown last March.

On Friday, Jones' attorney Venous Telford argued that having a separate charge for each window defied common sense.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner agreed to compress the five counts into one, but subsequently realised that the issue of window tints did not even come under the 1952 regulations.

Those regulations specify that tinted windscreens are illegal, not side or rear windows.