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80 Certain matters indicated by prescribed road safety cameras are evidence
S. 80(1) amended by No. 28/2009 s. 26(2).
(1) If in proceedings for an offence to which section 66 applies the fact that the driver of the motor vehicle or trailer disobeyed a traffic signal or drove the motor vehicle or trailer in a particular portion of a highway on any occasion is relevant, evidence of that fact as indicated or determined on that occasion by—
S. 80(1)(a) amended by Nos 5/1990 s. 13(1), 28/2009 s. 26(3).
(a) a prescribed road safety camera; or
S. 80(1)(b) amended by Nos 5/1990 s. 13(1), 19/1991 s. 15, 14/2000 s. 20(1), 28/2009 s. 26(3).
(b) an image or message produced by a prescribed road safety camera or by a prescribed process—
when used in the prescribed manner is, without prejudice to any other mode of proof and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the fact that the driver of the motor vehicle or trailer disobeyed a traffic signal or drove the motor vehicle or trailer in that portion of the highway on that occasion.
S. 80(2) amended by No. 78/1987 s. 15, repealed by No. 58/1988 s. 4(3)(b),
new s. 80(2) inserted by No. 14/2007 s. 12(5), amended by No. 93/2009 s. 23(3).
(2) For the purpose of any proceedings for an offence to which section 66 applies in which the question whether the driver of a motor vehicle or trailer disobeyed a traffic signal or drove the motor vehicle or trailer in a particular portion of a highway on any occasion is relevant, if a trailer or a motor vehicle that is being towed is attached to a motor vehicle, proof that the driver of one of those vehicles disobeyed a traffic signal or drove the vehicle in a particular portion of the highway on that occasion is proof that the driver of the other vehicle did so.
S. 80A (Heading) inserted by No. 28/2009 s. 27(1).
S. 80A inserted by No. 84/1994 s. 58, amended by Nos 14/2000 s. 20(2), 28/2009 s. 27(2).