ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 - SECT 18AB Restrictions affecting learner drivers

ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 - SECT 18AB

    (1)     A learner driver must not drive a motor vehicle on a highway (other than a tractor or motor cycle) unless an appropriate supervising driver is sitting beside the learner driver.

Penalty:     60 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months.

    (2)     In this section—

"appropriate supervising driver", in relation to a motor vehicle being driven by a learner driver, means a person who at the relevant time is supervising the learner driver and—

        (a)     holds a full driver licence that authorises the person to drive the motor vehicle; or

        (b)     holds an appropriate licence or permit issued in another jurisdiction or country (other than a licence on probation, a provisional licence or learner permit) that authorises the holder of the licence or permit to drive the motor vehicle in that jurisdiction or country and is authorised by the regulations to drive that category of motor vehicle;

"learner driver" means a person who holds an Australian learner permit and does not have an appropriate driver licence which authorises them to drive the motor vehicle on a highway.

S. 18A inserted by No. 74/2013 s. 13.