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ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 175B

175B—Evidence relating to use of devices in or on vehicles

        (1)         This section applies to the following:

            (a)         a device use offence;

            (b)         an offence against section 79B constituted of being the owner of a vehicle that appears from evidence obtained through the operation of a prescribed photographic detection device to have been involved in the commission of a device use offence.

        (2)         Evidentiary provisions—

            (a)         relating to evidence obtained through the operation of a prescribed photographic detection device; and

            (b)         facilitating proof of the commission of an offence to which this section applies,

(including presumptions that may be rebutted by the defendant), may be prescribed by regulation or rule under this section.

        (3)         Nothing in this section derogates from any other power under this Act to prescribe evidentiary provisions to facilitate proof of offences.

        (4)         In this section—

"device use offence" means a prescribed offence within the meaning of section 79B relating to the use of a device in or on a vehicle that is prescribed by the regulations as a device use offence for the purposes of this section;

"prescribed photographic detection device" means a photographic detection device prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.



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