New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT) ACT 1999 - SECT 57C

57C Approval of devices for multiple detection functions

(1) The appropriate approval authority may, by order published in the Gazette, approve the same device for use as an approved device for the purposes of 2 or more device approval provisions if the device is designed to perform the detection functions referred to in each of those provisions.

(2) The "appropriate approval authority" for the purposes of subsection (1) is:

(a) if the approval authority for each of the device approval provisions concerned is the same person-that person, or

(b) if the approval authority for each of the device approval provisions concerned is a different person-the Governor.

(3) An order under subsection (1) may extend to devices that have previously been approved under a device approval provision for a particular detection function.

(4) A device approved under subsection (1) is taken for the purposes of this Act:

(a) to have been duly approved for the purposes of each of the device approval provisions specified in the order, and

(b) to be an approved device of the kind referred to in each of those provisions.

(5) Evidence concerning, or obtained from, a device approved under subsection (1) that is used for a particular detection function is subject to the same provisions of this Act and the regulations that would have applied to the device if it had been approved only for that purpose under the relevant device approval provision.

(6) Section 44 (2) extends to the making of an order under subsection (1) that would operate to approve a device for the detection function referred to in section 44.

(7) Nothing in this section prevents a device from being approved under a device approval provision rather than under this section.

(8) In this section:
"approval authority", in relation to a device approval provision, means the person who has the function of approving a device for the detection function referred to in that provision.
"detection function" means the detection function for which a device may be approved under any of the device approval provisions.
"device approval provision" means each of the following provisions:

(a) section 44 (Approved speed measuring devices),

(b) section 45 (Approved camera recording devices) in its application to the approval of devices by the Governor,

(c) section 45 (Approved camera recording devices) in its application to the approval of devices by the Commissioner of Police,

(d) section 47A (Approved average speed detection devices),

(e) section 56 (Approved camera detection device),

(f) section 57A (Approved traffic lane camera devices).