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Land Transport Act 1998

Proceedings enforcing responsibilities - Infringement offences

139AAA: Infringement offence verified by automated infringement system

You could also call this:

“Special camera system checks if you've broken road rules and sends you a notice”

When a special system called an automated infringement system is connected to the register of motor vehicles, it can check if you’ve broken certain road rules. This system uses information from approved cameras or speed measuring equipment.

The system checks three things:

  1. If you’ve committed a moving vehicle offence (breaking a road rule while your vehicle was moving).
  2. If there are clear pictures of your vehicle, its number plate, and who owns it.
  3. If the pictures are good enough to use as proof.

If all these things check out, the system creates an infringement notice. This is like a ticket that says you’ve broken a road rule. The Agency, which is a government department, then sends out this notice.

The Agency is allowed to believe you’ve broken the rule just based on what the automated system tells them. They don’t need any other proof to send you the notice.

This new rule will start on 1 March 2024.

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Part 10 Proceedings enforcing responsibilities
Infringement offences

139AAAInfringement offence verified by automated infringement system

  1. This section applies if an automated infringement system that is linked to information on the register of motor vehicles verifies, on the basis of data provided by approved vehicle surveillance equipment or a point-to-point average speed system,—

  2. the commission of an infringement offence, that is a moving vehicle offence, detected by the equipment or system; and
    1. the following data in connection with the offence:
      1. 1 or more electronic images (or sequences of electronic images) connected with the infringement offence:
        1. the registration plate of the vehicle involved in the infringement offence:
          1. the registered person for the vehicle; and
          2. that the images referred to in paragraph (b)(i) are of sufficient quality to be used as evidence in relation to the offence.

            1. The automated infringement system produces an infringement notice in relation to the verified infringement offence that the Agency issues as enforcement officer under section 139.

            2. For the purposes of section 139(1), the Agency as enforcement officer (see section 208A) is treated as having reasonable cause to believe the infringement offence has been committed if the automated infringement system verifies the matters set out in subsection (1) in relation to the offence.

            Notes
            • Section 139AAA: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Land Transport (Road Safety) Amendment Act 2023 (2023 No 62).