4AC   Photographic evidence of speeding offence

(1)  In proceedings for an offence of driving at a speed in excess of a speed limit imposed by or under this Act or the regulations, evidence may be given of a measurement of speed obtained by the use of an approved speed measuring device and recorded by an approved camera recording device.

(2)  In proceedings where such evidence is given:

(a)  the provisions of section 4AB relating to the accuracy or reliability of the speed measuring device apply, and

(b)  subsections (3) and (4) apply in relation to the approved camera recording device.

(3)  A photograph tendered in evidence as a photograph taken by an approved camera recording device on a specified day at a specified location:

(a)  is to be accepted as having been so taken, unless evidence is adduced to the contrary, and

(b)  is prima facie evidence of the matters shown or recorded on the photograph.

(4)  When the photograph is tendered in evidence, a certificate purporting to be signed by a member of the police force and certifying the following particulars is also to be tendered in evidence and is prima facie evidence of those particulars:

(a)  that the member is authorised by the Commissioner of Police to install and inspect approved camera recording devices,

(b)  that within 84 hours before the time and day recorded on the photograph as the time at which and the day on which the photograph was taken, the member carried out the inspection specified in the certificate on the approved camera recording device that took the photograph,

(c)  that on that inspection the approved camera recording device was found to be operating correctly.