Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 44B

44B .         Recognition of authorisation of another jurisdiction

        (1)         The regulations are to provide for the Director General to recognise —

            (a)         another jurisdiction’s driving authorisation; and

            (b)         any condition to which that authorisation is expressed to be subject other than a condition —

                  (i)         that cannot apply in this State; or

                  (ii)         that the regulations specify as not needing to be recognised,

                and are to specify the effects of that recognition for the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         The recognition of another jurisdiction’s driving authorisation cannot, at a particular time, authorise its holder to drive in this State to any greater extent than the recognised authorisation would, at that time, authorise the holder to drive in the other jurisdiction.

        (3)         Subsection (2) does not prevent the holder of another jurisdiction’s driving authorisation from being authorised to drive in this State to a greater extent than the recognised authorisation would authorise the holder to drive in the other jurisdiction because of a condition described in subsection (1)(b)(i) or (ii).

        (4)         In this section —

        another jurisdiction’s driving authorisation means a licence or other authorisation granted to a person under the law of another jurisdiction authorising the person to drive a motor vehicle on a road whether or not solely for the purpose of learning to drive it.

        [Section 44B inserted by No. 54 of 2006 s. 6.]