Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT 1936 (REPEALED) - SECT 10

(1)     The Registrar may require a person who is an applicant for a licence or for the renewal of a licence or any person who is licensed to drive a motor vehicle to submit himself or herself for examination by a medical testing officer and, unless the medical testing officer, after such examination as he or she considers necessary, certifies that, in his or her opinion, that person is a medically fit and proper person to drive a motor vehicle, the Registrar shall refuse to grant or renew the licence or shall cancel the licence.

(2)     The Registrar may require a person who is an applicant for a licence or for the renewal of a licence or any person who is licensed to drive a public motor vehicle a private hire car or a restricted hire vehicle to submit himself or herself for examination by a medical testing officer and, unless the medical testing officer, after such examination as he or she considers necessary certifies that he or she has on the date of the certificate personally examined that person, knowing the person to be an applicant for, or the holder of, a licence to drive a vehicle of that class, and that, in the medical testing officer's opinion, having proper regard to the health and safety of passengers and of the public generally, that person is a medically fit and proper person to be employed as the driver of a public motor vehicle, a private hire car or a restricted hire vehicle, the Registrar shall refuse to grant or renew the licence or shall cancel the licence.