Queensland Consolidated Regulations Queensland Consolidated Regulations(1) A person has a special need for a class HC licence if the person--
(a) resides in a remote area; and
(b) needs to drive a class HC vehicle in the course of the person's employment; and
(c) can not get a class LR or MR licence because the person does not have access to a type LR or MR vehicle to learn to drive that type of vehicle.
(2) A person claiming a special need must apply to the chief executive in the approved form.
(3) The approved form must be accompanied by a signed statement from the person's employer that supports the person's claim.
(4) In deciding whether to approve the application, the chief executive must consider the person's traffic history.
(5) If the chief executive decides to approve the application, the chief executive must grant a class HC learner licence to the person.
(6) For subsection (1)(a), a remote area is an area of a shire or city--
(a) declared as a local government area under the Local Government Act 1993 as in force immediately before the changeover day; and
(b) mentioned in schedule 5.
Notes--
1 Under the Local Government Act 1993 as in force immediately before the changeover day, shires and cities were described in the Local Government (Areas) Regulation 2005, schedule 1 as in force immediately before the changeover day.
2 Each map mentioned in the Local Government (Areas) Regulation 2005, schedule 1 as in force immediately before the changeover day can be--
(a) accessed by members of the public, free of charge, on the department's website; or
(b) purchased from any office of the department in which the Survey and Mapping Infrastructure Act 2003 is administered.
Editor's note--
At the commencement of this subsection, the department's website was.
(7) In this section--
changeover day means 15 March 2008.
Note--
15 March 2008 is the changeover day declared under the Local Government Act 1993, section 159YE(2) for all new, adjusted and continuing local government areas listed in schedule 1A of that Act. See the notice published in the gazette on 23 November 2007 at page 1680.