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Transport Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975

Public Act		1975 No 106
Date of assent		9 October 1975

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Blood tests
3	Parking infringements
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Transport Act 1962

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Transport Amendment Act (No. 2) 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Transport Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Blood tests

(1)

Section 58b of the principal Act (as substituted by section 5 of the Transport Amendment Act 1970) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (6) the words “forthwith deliver or cause to be delivered, either personally or”, and substituting the words “within 7 days after the date on which they were taken under subsection (1) of this section, deliver or cause to be delivered personally or post or cause to be posted”.

(2)

Section 58b of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (7), the following subsection:

“(7a)

Where under subsection (6) or subsection (7) of this section a request is made for one of the parts of the specimen of blood or, as the case may be, one of the specimens of blood to be sent to a specified analyst, proof that one of those parts or specimens was posted to that analyst by registered post addressed to him at the address given by the person making the request, or, in any case to which subsection (7) of this section applies, a certificate signed by an analyst (as defined in subsection (10) of this section) that one such part of specimen was so posted, shall in proceedings for an offence against this Part of this Act be sufficient evidence, until the contrary is proved, that the part or specimen was supplied to that analyst pursuant to the request.”

(3)

Section 58b of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (9), after paragraph (a), the following paragraph:

“(aa)

A certificate purporting to be signed by an analyst and certifying that a specimen of blood was received on a specified date by an officer of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on behalf of the Dominion Analyst or of a Government Analyst in a sealed container which was delivered by a named constable or traffic officer by personal delivery or by registered post shall be sufficient evidence, until the contrary is proved, of such of those matters as are so certified; and”.

3 Parking infringements

Section 194a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 27(1) of the Transport Amendment Act 1968) is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (8), after the words “local authority”, the words “, or, where the notice was issued by an officer of the Ministry of Transport, to an office of the Ministry”.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Transport.

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