Victorian Consolidated Regulations

ROAD SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1999 - SECT 306

Testing of speed measuring devices

306. Testing of speed measuring devices

For the purposes of sections 79, 81 and 84(7) of the Act, a speed measuring
device is tested in the prescribed manner if the testing officer who tests the
device-

   (a)  is satisfied that the device is in a satisfactory electrical condition
        and, in particular, that any maintenance carried out on the device has
        been carried out in a satisfactory manner; and

   (b)  is satisfied that the device is properly calibrated so that it
        operates within the following limits of error-

   (i)  in the case of a digitector or an automatic detection device referred
        to in regulation 302(d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m),
        (p) or (q), the time intervals at which calibration is effected
        indicate speed readings within a limit of error not greater than or
        less than 2 kilometres per hour of the true speeds determinable from
        those intervals; and

   (ii) in the case of an automatic detection device referred to in regulation
        302(b), (c) and (o), the frequencies or speeds at which calibration is
        effected indicate speed readings within a limit of error not greater
        than or less than 3 kilometres per hour or 3 per cent (whichever is
        greater) of the true speeds determinable from those frequencies or
        speeds;

   (iia) in the case of an automatic detection device referred to in
        regulation 302(n), the frequencies generated at which calibration is
        effected indicate speed readings within a limit of error not greater
        than or less than 2 kilometres per hour of the true speeds
        determinable from those frequencies;

   (iii) in the case of a laser device, not more than 2 kilometres per hour
        greater than or less than the true speeds determinable from those
        tests; and

   (iv) in the case of a radar device, the frequencies generated at which
        calibration is effected indicate speed readings within a limit of
        error not greater than or less than 2 kilometres per hour of the true
        speeds determinable from those frequencies; and

   (c)  records and retains the results of the test, including-

   (i)  a statement showing the frequencies or speeds at which the calibration
        was effected and the number of times that each frequency or speed the
        calibration was effected; and

   (ii) the date of the test and the ambient temperature at the time of the
        test.