ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 47DA
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 47DA
(1) A
driver testing station may be established by police officers at any time on or
in the vicinity of any road for the purpose of enabling screening tests to be
conducted in relation to persons driving motor vehicles on the road.
(2) A
driver testing station must be established in such a way, and consist of such
facilities and warning and other devices, as the Commissioner of Police
considers necessary in order to enable vehicles to be stopped in a safe and
orderly manner and the screening tests to be made in quick succession.
(3) If a driver
testing station is established in the vicinity of an event being held outside
Metropolitan Adelaide for the purpose of enabling screening tests to be
conducted in relation to persons who have attended the event, signs advising
of the establishment of the driver testing station must be displayed in
positions where people arriving at the event are likely to see them (however a
prosecution for an offence will not fail because of any non-compliance with
this subsection).
(4) In
subsection (3)—
"Metropolitan Adelaide" has the same meaning as in the
Development Act 1993 ;
"screening test" means an alcotest or drug screening test.