New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DRIVING INSTRUCTORS ACT 1992 - SECT 54A

54A Driving schools and employers to report alleged misconduct

(1) This section applies to a person who employs a driving instructor, or who conducts a driving school, or who is engaged in the control, management or administration of a driving school.

(2) As soon as practicable after receiving it, a person to whom this section applies must report to the Authority any complaint of alleged misconduct on the part of a driving instructor who is working as such for the person or driving school (as the case may be) at the time the complaint is made.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3) As soon as practicable after witnessing it, a person to whom this section applies must report to the Authority any conduct on the part of a driving instructor (whether or not the driving instructor is working as such for the person or driving school) that the person reasonably believes constitutes misconduct.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(4) Alleged misconduct must be reported to the Authority regardless of whether it is alleged to have occurred within the State or elsewhere.

(5) A report made to the Authority under subsection (2) or (3) must be in writing.