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ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) REGULATION 2017 - REG 70 Downgrading of driver licence

ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) REGULATION 2017 - REG 70

Downgrading of driver licence

70 Downgrading of driver licence

(cf 2008 Reg cl 59)

(1) If a driver licence is cancelled--
(a) by the operation of the road transport legislation as a result of the imposition on the holder of the licence of a period of disqualification, or
(b) under section 59 of the Act,
Transport for NSW may, if the offence or offences (or alleged offence or offences) that gave rise to the cancellation arise wholly or mainly out of the use of a motor vehicle or trailer of a class approved by Transport for NSW for the purposes of this clause, issue the former holder with another driver licence, being one that does not authorise the driving of motor vehicles or trailers of that class, in substitution for the cancelled licence.
(2) Nothing in this clause--
(a) limits any discretion of Transport for NSW to decline to issue a licence to a person, or
(b) permits the issue of any licence to a person who for the time being is disqualified from holding one.