Its not a Law at all its a regulation. It has the same weight in law as your dog shitting on the footpath or not having a TV licence.Originally Posted by gjm
Oh, come on.
The law says that the speed limit on a given piece of road is whatever it is. Let's use the example of a nice piece of highway, with a posted limit of 100km/h.
This is not a negotiable number. The fact that the police have offered a tolerance of up to 10km/h is of potential benefit to the motoring public. However, it does not mean that anything over 100km/h but less than 110km/h is legal. It just means that if they see you travelling at those speeds, they may choose to let you get away with it. As I understand the law, they are still within their rights to pull you up and ticket you for travelling at any speed in excess of the speed limit.
Of course, you can contest this. How would it go? "But your honour, I was travelling at 104km/h which is well within the tolerance the police say they operate." "Yes, I understand the defendants position, but at 104km/h you were in breach of the law [probably quote statute number whatever here] and as such you have wasted my time, police time, and your own time. Your fine is doubled and you will now pay court costs."
Exceed the posted limit, and you could be stopped and fined. It really is that simple.
Bloody annoying and I don't like it any more than anyone else, but simple. Live with it.
Whether police time could be better spent doing something else, like pulling the fuckwit travelling eratically between Pokeno and Drury at 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105+, and back down the scale, mostly entirely in the right hand lane of SH1 but sometimes with two wheels either side of the dotted centre line and sometimes with two wheels over the right hand side solid line, while evidently fiddling with something on the passenger seat, is another matter. We passed two 'road safety' camera vans in that distance, but neither will have any interest in this.
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