Queensland Consolidated Regulations Queensland Consolidated Regulations(1) This section applies to--
(a) a person who satisfies the following requirements--
(i) either--
(A) the person, after being given a notice to choose, agrees under section 25(2)(b) to be of good behaviour while driving for a year; or
(B) the person's driver licence is suspended under section 25(4) or (8) or 30A;
(ii) the person committed the offence that led to the notice to choose or suspension mentioned in subparagraph (i) after 30 June 2007 and when the person was under 25 years;
(iii) at the time of committing the offence, the person--
(A) held a P type, P1 type or P2 type licence; or
(B) did not hold a valid driver licence and was not eligible for an open licence; or
(b) a person who satisfies the following requirements--
(i) the person is disqualified from holding or obtaining a Queensland driver licence for an offence committed after 30 June 2007;
(ii) the person committed the offence that led to the disqualification when the person was under 25 years;
(iii) at the time of committing the offence, the person--
(A) held a P type, P1 type, P2 type or open licence; or
(B) did not hold a valid driver licence.
(2) However, this section does not apply to a person whose only valid driver licence is a learner licence.
(3) The person must not drive a motor vehicle on a road between the hours of 11p.m. on a day and 5a.m. on the next day during the period of 1 year after the relevant date, unless the person--
(a) has a current certificate of exemption issued under section 22G; and
(b) is driving in accordance with the certificate.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(4) If, during the 1 year period mentioned in subsection (3), the person ceases to hold a valid driver licence, the 1 year period is extended by the length of the period for which the person does not hold a valid driver licence.
(5) Subsection (6) applies if a police officer reasonably suspects a person to whom this section applies is, or has been, driving a motor vehicle on a road between the hours of 11p.m. on a day and 5a.m. on the next day during the period of 1 year after the relevant date.
(6) If asked by the police officer whether the person is allowed to drive a motor vehicle on a road between the hours of 11p.m. on a day and 5a.m. on the next day, the person must produce for inspection a current certificate of exemption issued to the person under section 22G unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with the request.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(7) Without limiting the matters that may be a reasonable excuse for subsection (6), it is a reasonable excuse if the person has not been issued with a certificate of exemption under section 22G.
(8) In this section--
relevant date means--
(a) for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(a) who, after being given a notice to choose, agrees under section 25(2)(b) to be of good behaviour while driving for a year--the sanction date of the person's driver licence specified in the notice to choose; or
(b) for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(a) whose driver licence is suspended under section 25(4) or (8) or 30A--the day after the last day of the suspension or, if the person's driver licence expires before the end of the suspension, the day the person is granted a driver licence; or
(c) for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(b)--the day the person is granted a driver licence other than a learner licence or restricted licence.