Victorian Consolidated Regulations

2 Reg. 302A(1)(b): S.R. No. 27/1999. Reprint No. 2 as at 15 December 2002. Reprinted to S.R. No. 114/2002. Subsequently amended by S.R. No. 87/2003. - SECT 211A

Offence to drive high powered motor vehicle

211A. Offence to drive high powered motor vehicle



(1) The holder of a probationary driver licence must not drive a high powered
motor vehicle on a highway.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.



(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to-

   (a)  the holder of a probationary driver licence who is driving a high
        powered motor vehicle in the course of his or her employment and at
        the request of his or her employer; or

   (b)  the holder of a probationary driver licence who is exempt from the
        requirement in subregulation (1) by the Corporation in accordance with
        subregulation (3); or

   (c)  a member of the police force who, in the course of duty, is driving a
        motor vehicle; or

   (d)  a person who is driving a high powered motor vehicle that is also a
        heavy vehicle if-

   (i)  that person does not hold a driver licence that authorises the holder
        to drive that motor vehicle; and

   (ii) he or she is the holder of a driver licence of another category; and

   (iii) a person who holds an Australian driver licence which is appropriate
        for the category of vehicle that is being driven is sitting beside him
        or her; and

   (iv) there is a driver under instruction plate affixed to, and facing out
        from, the front and rear of the vehicle.

(3) The Corporation, by instrument in writing, may exempt the holder of a
probationary driver licence from the requirement of subregulation (1) if the
nature of that person's employment or family circumstances is such that
compliance with the regulation would impose undue hardship on the person or
the person's family having regard to the likely effect of the exemption on
safe, efficient and equitable road use in Victoria.