Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Road Safety Act 1986 - SECT 50A

Driver education programs

50A. Driver education programs





(1) The Corporation must not issue a driver licence or permit to a person
whose driver licence or permit is cancelled, or who is disqualified from
obtaining a driver licence or permit, on conviction, or on being found guilty,
of an offence under section 49(1)(b), (f) or (g) and who, at the time of the
offence, was under 25 years old unless it is satisfied that the person has, if
the offence is a first offence and the level of concentration of alcohol in
that person's blood or breath (as the case requires) was less than 0×15 grams
per 100 millilitres of blood or 210 litres of exhaled air (as the case
requires), completed an accredited driver education program.





(1A) The Corporation must not issue a driver licence or permit to a person
whose driver licence or permit is cancelled, or who is disqualified from
obtaining a driver licence or permit, on conviction, or on being found guilty,
of an offence under section 49(1)(ba), (bb), (ca), (ea), (h) or (i) and who,
at the time of the offence, was under 25 years old unless it is satisfied that
the person has, if the offence is a first offence, completed an accredited
driver education program.

(2) The Corporation must cancel the driver licence or permit of a person who
was convicted, or found guilty, of an offence under section 49(1)(b), (bb),
(f), (g), (h) or (i) and whose driver licence or permit was not cancelled on
the conviction or finding of guilt, unless it is satisfied that the person has
completed an accredited driver education program within 3 months after being
required by the Corporation by notice in writing to do so.

(3) If a person is charged with an offence under section 49(1), and on the
hearing the court releases the person on him or her giving an undertaking
under section 75(1) of the Sentencing Act 1991, the court must attach to the
undertaking a condition that the person completes an accredited driver
education program.

(4) The Corporation may in its discretion exempt any person from the
requirement to complete an accredited driver education program.