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80BCertain matters related to portable devices indicated by prescribed road safety cameras are evidence
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80B Certain matters related to portable devices indicated by prescribed road safety cameras are evidence
(1) This section applies if, in a proceeding for an offence to which section 66 applies, the fact that the driver of a motor vehicle was, while the vehicle was moving or stationary but not parked, touching a portable device, or had a portable device resting on their body or on clothes being worn by them or on an item in their lap (the ***relevant fact***), on any occasion (the ***relevant occasion***) is relevant in the proceeding.
(b) an image or message produced by a prescribed road safety camera or 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 relevant fact on the relevant occasion.
***park*** has the same meaning as in the Road Rules;
***portable device*** has the same meaning as in the Road Rules;
***touching*** has the same meaning as in the Road Rules.
S. 80C inserted by No. 18/2022 s. 3.