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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 150AA Regulating young drivers

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 150AA

Regulating young drivers

150AA Regulating young drivers

(1) A regulation made under this part, to the extent it is about the management of young drivers, may provide for the following—
(a) standards about young driver skills and knowledge;
(b) the training of young drivers;
(c) the keeping and production of logbooks to record the driving experience of young drivers;
(d) the retention of the logbooks mentioned in paragraph (c) ;
(e) the testing and licensing of young drivers;
(f) rules about licences held by young drivers, including, in particular, the circumstances in which, and the reasons for which, they can be cancelled or suspended or conditions imposed on them;
(g) the granting of exemptions from conditions of licences;
(h) the passengers young drivers may carry in vehicles;
(i) the use of mobile phones and other similar forms of communication in vehicles driven by young drivers;
(j) the vehicles that may and may not be driven by young drivers.
(2) The following is not unlawful discrimination on the basis of age for the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991
(a) a provision of a regulation about the management of young drivers as mentioned in subsection (1) , that is declared under the regulation as a provision that is not unlawful discrimination on the basis of age for the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 ;
(b) the doing of an act that is necessary to comply with, or that is authorised by, a provision declared under paragraph (a) .
(3) In this section—


"young driver" means a driver under 25 years.