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80CCertain matters related to wearing of driver seatbelt indicated by prescribed road safety cameras are evidence
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80C Certain matters related to wearing of driver seatbelt 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 not, while the vehicle was moving or stationary but not parked, wearing the seatbelt for the driver's seating position in a properly adjusted and fastened manner (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.
S. 80D inserted by No. 18/2022 s. 3.