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Land Transport Act 1998

Miscellaneous provisions

208A: Agency is enforcement officer for certain infringement offences

You could also call this:

“The transport agency can give tickets for some driving offences, even if they didn't see it happen”

The Agency is allowed to give out tickets for certain driving offences. These are called moving vehicle offences. This means the Agency can act as a traffic officer for these specific offences.

The Agency can give you a ticket even if they didn’t catch you themselves. They can use special cameras or speed measuring systems to detect the offence. These can be operated by the Agency or by someone else.

When we say “the Agency”, we’re talking about the government department responsible for transport in New Zealand.

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Part 15 Miscellaneous provisions

208AAgency is enforcement officer for certain infringement offences

  1. This section applies to an infringement offence that is a moving vehicle offence.

  2. The Agency is an enforcement officer for the purposes of issuing an infringement notice under section 139.

  3. This section applies whether the approved vehicle surveillance equipment or the point-to-point average speed system that detected the offence was operated by the Agency or another person.

Notes
  • Section 208A: replaced, on , by section 33 of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 62).