Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Director
General cannot grant or renew a driver’s licence until the applicant has
provided, in support of the application, any evidence required by the
regulations to establish the applicant’s identity and residential
address in this State.
(2) Except as
prescribed in the regulations, the Director General cannot grant or renew a
driver’s licence unless the applicant has, at the time of the
application or before, provided the Director General with —
(a) a
photograph taken within 10 years of the application; and
(b) a
signature made within 10 years of the application,
for use on the
driver’s licence document.
(3) The photograph and
signature are to be provided in a manner and form approved by the Director
General.
(4) The Director
General is to ensure that any photograph or signature provided under this
section is destroyed if it, or a copy of it, has not been used on a
driver’s licence document for a driver’s licence granted or
renewed in the preceding 10 years.
(5) A person who,
other than for the purposes of this Part, possesses a photograph or signature
provided under this section that is not on a driver’s licence document
commits an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(6) A person employed
or engaged in connection with any aspect of the production of driver’s
licence documents or otherwise concerned in the administration of this Part,
who, otherwise than in the administration of this Part —
(a)
reproduces, by any means, a photograph or signature that appears, or is to
appear, on a driver’s licence document; or
(b)
causes or permits another person to do so,
commits an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(7) In this
section —
destroyed includes damaged so as to be unusable;
photograph includes a negative or an image stored
electronically.
[Section 42E inserted by No. 54 of 2006
s. 6.]
[Heading inserted by No. 54 of 2006 s. 6.]