New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT) ACT 1999 - SECT 45

45 Approved camera recording devices

(cf Traffic Act, s 2 (1))

(1) In this Act, an "approved camera recording device" is a device of a type approved by the appropriate approval authority by order published in the Gazette as being designed for attachment to an approved speed measuring device for the purpose of taking photographs of vehicles being driven in excess of speed limits and for recording on any such photograph:

(a) the speed at which any such vehicle is travelling (as measured by the approved speed measuring device), and

(b) the date on which the photograph is taken, and

(c) the time and location at which the photograph is taken, and

(d) the speed limit that, in accordance with the regulations, is applicable to the length of road or road related area at which the photograph is taken, and

(e) the direction in which the vehicle is travelling (that is, towards or away from the device).

(2) In this Act, "approved digital camera recording device" is an approved camera recording device that is capable of recording images in the form of digitalised, electronic or computer-generated images.

(3) In this section, "appropriate approval authority", in relation to the approval of a device as an approved camera recording device, means:

(a) if the device is only capable of taking photographs that are not in the form of digitalised, electronic or computer-generated images-the Commissioner of Police, or

(b) if the device is capable of taking photographs in the form of digitalised, electronic or computer-generated images-the Governor.

Note: For orders under this section see Gazettes No 61 of 5.5.2006, p 2994 and No 152 of 28.11.2008, pp 11680, 11681.