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MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 96

MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 96

96—Duty to produce licence or permit

        (1)         The driver of a motor vehicle, if requested by a police officer to produce the driver's licence or learner's permit, must produce the licence or learner's permit either—

            (a)         forthwith to the police officer who made the request; or

            (b)         within 48 hours after the making of the request, at a police station conveniently located for the driver, specified by the police officer at the time of making the request.

Maximum penalty: $1 250.

        (2)         A document purporting to be signed by the Commissioner of Police and purporting to certify that a licence or learner's permit has not been produced as required by this section is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, proof of the matter purporting to be so certified.

        (3)         A person must not falsely represent to a police officer that the person is the person named in a licence or learner's permit.

Maximum penalty: $750.

        (4)         In this section—

"driver" includes—

            (a)         a person sitting next to the holder of a learner's permit in a vehicle being driven by the holder of the permit;

            (b)         a person being carried as a passenger on, or in a sidecar attached to, a motor bike being driven by the holder of a learner's permit;

"police officer" includes an authorised officer.