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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--ACCREDITATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS) REGULATION 2005 - SECT 59

59 Requirements for car used to give training

(1) An accredited driver trainer must ensure that a car the driver trainer provides to give pre-licence driver training is fitted with the following equipment when the car is used to give the training on a road--

(a) training controls that are easily accessible for immediate use by a driver trainer sitting in the front passenger seat of the car;
(b) an internal rear-view mirror for the trainer as well as the driver's rear-view mirror;
(c) an external driving mirror on each side of the car.

Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) The driver trainer must also ensure the car has on it--

(a) L plates that are fitted to the front and rear of the car in the required way; and
(b) a conspicuously displayed sign or plate showing--
(i) the driver trainer's name and accreditation number as a driver trainer; or
(ii) if the driver trainer carries on the business of driver training under a registered business name--the registered business name and the address of the driver trainer's principal place of business; or
(iii) if the driver trainer gives the training as an employee of another person carrying on the business of driver training--the person's name and address or if the person carries on business under a registered business name, the registered business name and the address of the driver trainer's principal place of business.

Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(3) In this section--

required way, for the fitting of L plates to the front and rear of a car, means so the L character on each of the L plates is visible from 20m away at any point within an arc of 45 degrees from the surface of each of the L plates above or to either side of the car.

training controls, for a car, means--

(a) if the car has automatic transmission--dual footbrake and accelerator controls; or
(b) if the car has manual transmission--dual footbrake and clutch controls.


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