Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 45

45 .         Exchange of information between jurisdictions

        (1)         The Director General may provide to another Australian driver licensing authority any information sought by that authority for the purposes of performing that authority’s functions to do with driver licensing.

        (2)         If the Director General provides to another Australian driver licensing authority information about an offence of which a person has been convicted or for which a person has been given an infringement notice, the Director General is also to provide information of —

            (a)         any quashing of the conviction;

            (b)         any withdrawal of the infringement notice or the matter coming before a court for determination;

            (c)         any withdrawal of proceedings under Part 3 of the Fines, Penalties and Infringement Notices Enforcement Act 1994 in respect of the infringement notice; or

            (d)         anything else known to the Director General concerning the offence, the disclosure of which is likely to be favourable to that person.

        (3)         The Director General may seek from another Australian driver licensing authority any information that the Director General considers relevant for the purposes of performing functions under this Act.

        (4)         The Director General may, for the purposes of performing functions under this Act, use information obtained from another Australian driver licensing authority.

        (5)         In this section —

        infringement notice has the same meaning as it has in Part VIA.

        [Section 45 inserted by No. 54 of 2006 s. 6.]