Traffic Act 1987
48Liability of insurers under policies of insurance
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48 Liability of insurers under policies of insurance (1) The fact that a person has undergone a breath test, submitted to a breath analysis or given a sample of blood for a blood test, the result of a breath test, breath analysis or blood test or the fact that a person has been convicted of an offence under Part V (other than section 29AAA(1)) is not, for the purposes of a contract of insurance, admissible as evidence of the fact that that person was at any time under the influence of or in any way affected by intoxicating liquor or incapable of driving or of exercising effective control over a motor vehicle, but nothing in this subsection precludes the admission of any other evidence to show any such fact. (2) A reference in a contract of insurance to a concentration of alcohol equal to or exceeding that prohibited by a law applicable in a State or Territory, or words to that effect, shall be construed, for the purposes of the contract of insurance, as a reference to the concentration specified in section 19(2). (3) Subsections (1) and (2) have effect notwithstanding anything contained in a contract of insurance and a covenant, term, condition or provision of a contract of insurance, to the extent that the operation of this section is excluded, limited, modified or restricted, is void.