Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) ACT 1999 - SECT 3

The objects of this Act are—

        (a)     to provide for a driver licensing system in the ACT that is—

              (i)     consistent with the agreements scheduled to the National Road Transport Commission Act 1991 (Cwlth); and

              (ii)     part of the uniform national road transport legislation envisaged by that Act and the uniform national approach to driver licensing; and

              (iii)     designed to provide uniform licence classes for drivers of motor vehicles, and uniform eligibility criteria for those licence classes; and

        (b)     to define the responsibilities of people in relation to driver licensing; and

        (c)     to provide a way of authorising the driving of motor vehicles on roads and road related areas and of identifying people as licensed drivers of motor vehicles; and

        (d)     to facilitate the regulation of drivers of motor vehicles in the interests of road safety and transport efficiency and law enforcement generally; and

        (e)     to provide a way of enforcing safety standards relating to the driving of motor vehicles on roads and road related areas; and

        (f)     to facilitate—

              (i)     the recovery of expenses of administering the driver licensing system; and

              (ii)     the collection of fees determined for this Act under the Road Transport (General) Act 1999 ; and

        (g)     to provide for other matters relating to learner, probationary, provisional, public vehicle and restricted licences; and

        (h)     to improve road safety and transport efficiency, and reduce the costs of administering road transport.

Note 1     This Act establishes a driver licensing system, including a demerit points system, and provides for the classes of driver licences and for the issue, suspension, cancellation and renewal of driver licences.

Note 2     The Commonwealth Act mentioned in s 3 (a) (i) has been repealed and replaced by the National Transport Commission Act 2003 (Cwlth), and the agreements scheduled to the repealed Act have been independently terminated and replaced by the Inter-Governmental Agreement for Regulatory and Operational Reform in Road, Rail and Intermodal Transport .