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Land Transport Act 1998

Proceedings enforcing responsibilities - Evidence

145: Evidence of approved vehicle surveillance equipment

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“Special cameras can catch and prove road rule breakers”

In New Zealand, when someone breaks a road rule or doesn’t pay a toll, special cameras and equipment can be used to catch them. These cameras can take pictures or videos of cars on the road. They can show the car, how fast it’s going, where it is, and what the traffic lights or signs look like. They can also show if someone hasn’t paid a toll. The cameras record when the picture was taken too.

If you go to court for breaking a road rule or driving in a special lane when you shouldn’t, these pictures or videos can be used as proof. Unless you can show the pictures or videos are wrong, the court will believe what they show.

The court will also believe that these pictures or videos came from the special cameras, unless you can prove they didn’t. This means if someone says they have pictures from these cameras, the court will think they’re real unless you can show they’re not.

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Part 10 Proceedings enforcing responsibilities
Evidence

145Evidence of approved vehicle surveillance equipment

  1. In proceedings for a moving vehicle offence or a special vehicle lane offence, data (including electronic images or a sequence of electronic images) produced by approved vehicle surveillance equipment and showing or recording a motor vehicle on a road, the speed of the vehicle, the location of the vehicle, the colour or form of a traffic control device, the fact that a toll has not been paid in respect of the vehicle, and the date and time when the image was taken, or showing or recording any of those things, is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence of that fact or event.

  2. The production, in proceedings for a moving vehicle offence or a special vehicle lane offence, of data purporting to be data referred to in subsection (1) is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence that the data was produced by approved vehicle surveillance equipment.

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Notes
  • Section 145(1): amended, on , by section 29(1) of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 62).
  • Section 145(1): amended, on , by section 19(1) of the Energy Innovation (Electric Vehicles and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 27).
  • Section 145(1): amended, on , by section 90 of the Land Transport Management Act 2003 (2003 No 118).
  • Section 145(2): replaced, on , by section 29(2) of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 62).