South Australian Current Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 163ZC

163ZC—Compensation orders for damage to road infrastructure

        (1)         A court that finds a person guilty of an offence may make an order (a "compensation order") requiring the offender to pay a road authority such amount by way of compensation as the court thinks fit for damage to any road infrastructure that the road authority has incurred or is likely to incur in consequence of the offence.

        (2)         A compensation order may be made on the application of the prosecutor or the road authority.

        (3)         A compensation order may only be made in favour of the road authority.

        (4)         The court may make a compensation order if it is satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the commission of the offence caused or contributed to the damage.

        (5)         The court may make a compensation order—

            (a)         when it finds the offender guilty of the offence; or

            (b)         on an application made not later than the period within which a prosecution for the offence could have been commenced.