Crimes (Radar Detected Offenses) Amendment Act 1987 (NSW)

CRIMES (RADAR DETECTED OFFENCES) AMENDMENT

ACT 1987 No. 32

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title
2. Commencement

3.     Amendment of s. 414A (Certificates to be evidence). Act No. 40, 1900

CRIMES (RADAR DETECTED OFFENCES) AMENDMENT ACT

1987 No. 32

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 32, 1987

An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900 with respect to evidence relating to

approved radar speed measuring devices. [Assented to 15 May 1987]

Crimes (Radar Delected Offences) Amendment 1987

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the "Crimes (Radar Detected Offences)

Amendment Act 1987".

Commencement

2. (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence on the date of assent to this

Act.

(2) Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act shall commence on the day appointed and notified under section 2 (2) of the Motor Traffic (Radar Detected Offences^ Amendment Act 1987.

Amendment of s. 414A (Certificates to be evidence), Act No. 40, 1900

1. Section 414A of the Crimes Act 1900 is amended by inserting after

subsection (1) the following subsections:

(1A) A certificate which would, by virtue of section 4AB of the Motor Traffic Act 1909, be prima facie evidence of the particulars certified in and by the certificate in proceedings for an offence shall be prima facie evidence of those particulars at any inquest or where a person is charged before a Magistrate or before any Court with an indictable offence.

(1B) Where any certificate is admitted in evidence by virtue of subsection (1A), evidence of the accuracy or reliability of the approved radar speed measuring device to which it relates shall not be required unless evidence that the device was not accurate or not reliable has

been adduced.