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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Road Traffic (Evidentiary Provisions) Amendment
Bill 2018
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Road
Traffic Act 1961
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3Amendment of section
175—Evidence
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Evidentiary Provisions)
Amendment Act 2018.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Road Traffic
Act 1961
3—Amendment
of section 175—Evidence
(1) Section 175(3)(ba)—after "specified traffic speed analyser"
insert:
that is a photographic detection device
(2) Section 175(3)(ba)(i)—after "in the case of " insert:
such
(3) Section 175(3)—after paragraph (ba) insert:
(baa) a document produced by the prosecution and purporting to be signed
by the Commissioner of Police, or by any other police officer of or above the
rank of inspector, and purporting to certify that a specified traffic speed
analyser that is not a photographic detection device had been tested on a
specified day in accordance with—
(i) the appropriate Australian Standard for testing the analyser as in
force on the day of testing; or
(ii) if there was no appropriate Australian Standard for testing the
analyser in force on the day of testing—the manufacturer's
specifications,
and was shown to be accurate to the extent indicated in the document,
constitutes, in the absence of proof to the contrary, proof of the facts
certified and that the traffic speed analyser was accurate to that extent on the
day on which it was so tested and, for the purpose of measuring the speed of any
motor vehicle, during the period of 1 year immediately following that day
(whether or not the speed measured differed from the speed in relation to which
the analyser was tested or the circumstances of the measurement differed in any
other respect from the circumstances of the test);