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PARKS AND RESERVES ACT 1895 - SECT 7C

PARKS AND RESERVES ACT 1895 - SECT 7C

7C .         Speed measuring equipment, evidentiary provisions as to

        (1)         In this section speed measuring equipment means apparatus of a type approved under the Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008 section 117(2).

        (2)         In any proceedings for an offence against any by-law made under this Act, evidence may be given of the use of speed measuring equipment by an authorised person in relation to a vehicle and of the speed at which that vehicle was moving as ascertained by the use of that equipment, and that evidence is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the speed at which that vehicle was moving at the time of the use of that equipment in relation to that vehicle.

        (3)         In any proceedings for an offence against any by-law made under this Act, evidence by an authorised person that apparatus used by him was speed measuring equipment within the meaning of this section is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of that fact.

        (4)         Nothing in this section shall be construed as precluding or restricting the introduction of any competent evidence, whether in addition to, or independent of, any evidence for which provision is made by this section, bearing on the question of whether a person was or was not guilty of an offence.

        [Section 7C inserted: No. 22 of 1983 s. 3; amended: No. 8 of 2012 s. 155.]