48—Evidentiary provision relating to intoxication
(1) A finding by a
court that there was present in the blood of a person, at or about the time of
an accident, a concentration of alcohol of .08 or more grams in 100
millilitres of blood is to be accepted, for the purposes of this Part, as
conclusive evidence of the facts so found and that the person was intoxicated
at the time of the accident.
(2) A finding by a
court that a person was at or about the time of an accident so much under the
influence of alcohol or a drug as to be unable to exercise effective control
of a motor vehicle is to be accepted, for the purposes of this Part, as
conclusive evidence that the person was, at the time of the accident, so much
under the influence of alcohol or a drug as to be unable to exercise effective
control of the motor vehicle.