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 219A

Peer passenger restrictions for P1 probationary drivers

219A. Peer passenger restrictions for P1 probationary drivers



(1) A P1 probationary driver must not drive a motor vehicle on a highway in
which there is more than one peer passenger.

Penalty: 10 penalty units

(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a P1 probationary driver-

   (a)  who is a member of the police force and is driving a motor vehicle on
        a highway in the course of his or her duties; or

   (b)  who is driving an emergency vehicle on a highway in the course of his
        or her employment or duties, or in accordance with any terms of a
        contract or any engagement; or

   (c)  whose probationary licence is subject to a condition that the licence
        holder must not drive a motor vehicle on a highway while carrying more
        than one other person; or

   (d)  who is driving a motor vehicle on a highway in which there is an
        experienced driver sitting beside the P1 probationary driver.

(3) The Corporation, by instrument in writing, may exempt a P1 probationary
driver from the requirement of subregulation (1) if the nature of that
person's employment, essential activities 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.





(4) In this regulation-

domestic partner has the same meaning as in the Road Safety (Vehicles)
Regulations 1999; emergency vehicle has the same meaning as in the Road Rules;
P1 probationary driver means-

   (a)  a person who is the holder of a P1 probationary driver licence; or

   (b)  a person who-

   (i)  is the holder of a provisional or probationary licence issued under a
        corresponding law of another jurisdiction; and

   (ii) who has held that licence for less than 12 months and was under 21
        years of age when that licence was issued to that person; peer
        passenger, in relation to a P1 probationary driver, means a person who
        is at least 16 years of age but no more than 21 years of age but does
        not include a person who is-

   (a)  the spouse or domestic partner of the P1 probationary driver; or

   (b)  sibling or step-sibling of the P1 probationary driver; spouse has the
        same meaning as in the Road Safety (Vehicles) Regulations 1999.







Division 3-Exemptions