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Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.
The object of this Bill is to widen the prohibition, with the result that it will
be an offence to sell, purchase or use any device or substance that is designed
to detect. interfere with, or reduce the effectiveness of, any approved speed
measuring device used by the police.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on a day or
days to be appointed by proclamation.
Clause 3 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendments to the Traffic
Act 1909 set out in Schedule 1.
Schedule 1 [l] inserts a definition of prohibited speed measuring evasion
article. The term covers any device or substance (eg paint). that is designed
to be fitted or applied to. or carried in. a vehicle for the purpose of detecting,
interfering with, or reducing the effectiveness of, the devices used by the
police to measure the speed of a vehicle (these measuring devices may be
radar based. or non-radar based). The new definition will include radar
detectors and radar jammers which are currently defined in the Act.
Schedule 1 [2] and [3] amend provisions currently prohibiting the sale,
purchase and use of radar detectors and radar jammers in order to extend the
offences to cover the sale. purchase and use of any prohibited speed
measuring evasion article.
Schedule 1 [4][6] are consequential amendments.
Schedule 1 [7] recasts existing provisions relating to the surrender and forfeit
of radar detectors and jammers so that they apply to prohibited speed
measuring evasion articles.
Schedule 1 [8][10] are consequential amendments.
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