Victorian Current Acts

ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 - SECT 85F

    (1)     If a person is charged by a police officer with a relevant speeding offence that has been detected by a speed detector, any police officer, by written notice, may suspend the driver licence or learner permit of the person at any time after the filing of the charge-sheet charging the relevant speeding offence until the charge has been determined.

    (2)     In this section—

"relevant speeding offence" means an offence—

        (a)     against section 64 where a motor vehicle was driven—

              (i)     at a speed of 45 kilometres per hour or more over the applicable speed limit; or

              (ii)     if the applicable speed limit was 110 kilometres per hour, at a speed of 145 kilometres per hour or more; or

        (b)     against section 65B or rule 20 of the Road Rules where a motor vehicle was driven—

              (i)     at a speed of 45 kilometres per hour or more over the applicable speed limit; or

              (ii)     if the applicable speed limit was 110 kilometres per hour, at a speed of 145 kilometres per hour or more.

S. 85G inserted by No. 6/2020 s. 7.