Clause 15

Section 89 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (5) thereof the following new subsection: —“(6) Where in any proceedings for an offence under this Act or the rules made thereunder relating to the maximum speed at which motor vehicles may be driven it is necessary to prove the speed at which the vehicle has been driven, a certificate, purporting to be signed by a police officer not below the rank of inspector who was in charge of the apparatus, instrument or appliance used to measure, at a distance from such vehicle, the speed at which the vehicle was driven and certifying that the apparatus, instrument or appliance had been examined within the previous three months and found to be accurate, shall be accepted by any court as prima facie proof of the facts certified in such certificate.”.