Road Traffic (Miscellaneous) Regulations 2014
Subdiv 5Special provisions relating to Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection devices
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Subdivision 5—Special provisions relating to Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection devices 40—Heavy vehicles and minimum allowable travel time (1) The driver of a heavy vehicle must not take a shorter length of time than the minimum allowable travel time when driving the vehicle between 2 Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection devices. (2) The minimum allowable travel time between 2 particular Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection devices is the time determined in respect of those devices by the Minister from time to time and notified in the Gazette. (3) For the purposes of calculating a driver's travel time between 2 Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection devices, any rest time recorded in the driver's work diary under the Road Traffic (Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue) Regulations 2008 or the Heavy Vehicle (Fatigue Management) National Regulation (South Australia) as having been taken between the devices may be deducted from the driver's travel time. 41—Same person not liable for more than 1 offence evidenced by same electronic record (1) A person may not be found guilty of a relevant offence relating to a vehicle on the basis of evidence of an electronic record, produced through the operation of a Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection device, of the number plate of the vehicle if— (a) the person has been found guilty of another relevant offence on the basis of evidence of the same electronic record; or (b) the person has expiated another relevant offence and the allegation relating to that other relevant offence was based on evidence of the same electronic record. relevant offence means a speeding or extreme speeding offence or an offence against regulation 40(1). 42—Evasive action in relation to Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection device The driver of a heavy vehicle must not take any action, other than a contravention referred to in Schedule 4 Part 1 clause 4, designed to avoid an electronic record being made through the operation of a Safe‑T‑Cam photographic detection device of the number plate of the vehicle as the vehicle is driven towards or away from the photographic detection device. 43—Evidentiary In proceedings for a speeding or extreme speeding offence, a document produced by the prosecution, purporting to be signed by the Minister and certifying the shortest distance, expressed in metres, that would be travelled by a vehicle on a road between 2 points, will be accepted as proof, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of the distance so certified.