MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 98AAA

MOTOR VEHICLES ACT 1959 - SECT 98AAA

98AAA—Duty to carry licence when driving heavy vehicle

        (1)         A person must carry the person's driver's licence at all times while driving a heavy vehicle on a road and must produce the licence forthwith if requested to do so by a police officer.

Maximum penalty: $1 250.

        (1a)         In subsection (1)—

"police officer" includes an authorised officer.

        (2)         It is a defence to a charge of an offence against this section if it is proved that the vehicle was being used on a journey wholly—

            (a)         within a radius of 80 kilometres from a farm occupied by the driver of the vehicle; and

            (b)         outside Metropolitan Adelaide within the meaning of the Development Act 1993 .