New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) ACT 1998 - SECT 32

32 Additional matters relating to identity

(1) The Authority may refuse to issue or renew a driver licence:

(a) if the applicant has not attended at a motor registry or another place nominated in or under the regulations and there submitted to the taking, by a person approved by the Authority, of a photograph of the applicant that is suitable for use on the driver licence, or

(b) if, in the opinion of the Authority, it is impracticable for the applicant to so attend, the applicant has not provided the Authority with a photograph of the applicant considered by the Authority as suitable for use on the driver licence, or

(c) if the applicant has not provided, in support of the application, such evidence as is required by the regulations or the Authority to establish the identity and residential address of the applicant.

(4) A person employed or engaged in connection with any aspect of the production of driver licences that feature a photograph of the holder, or otherwise concerned in the administration of this Act or the regulations, who, otherwise than in the administration of this Act or the regulations:

(a) reproduces, by photographic or other means, the likeness of a person that is depicted, or is to be depicted, in a licence, or

(b) causes or permits another person to do so,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty (subsection (4)): 20 penalty units.