Road Transport (Mass, Loading and Access) Regulation 2005
Historical version for 18 December 2006 to 30 June 2007 (accessed 24 May 2013 at 15:28) Current version

72ZE   Evidentiary presumptions

(1)  The intelligent access map, as issued by TCA at a specified time or during a specified period, is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) to be a correct representation of the national road network at the time of its issue.
(2)  The equipment and software that make up an intelligent access system is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) to have operated correctly on any particular occasion.
(3)  A statement of a vehicle’s position on the surface of the earth at a particular time, in a non-compliance report or otherwise generated or produced by means of an intelligent access system is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) to be a correct statement of the vehicle’s position at the time.
(4)  It is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced):
(a)  that intelligent access information generated by an intelligent access system is correctly generated, and
(b)  that intelligent access information generated by an intelligent access system is correctly recorded, and
(c)  that intelligent access information generated by an intelligent access system is not changed by being stored.
(5)  If it is established that some intelligent access information has been changed by being stored, the presumption in subclause (4) (c) continues to apply to any other stored intelligent access information.
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