Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 64

64 .         Driving with blood alcohol content of or above 0.08

        (1)         A person who drives or attempts to drive a motor vehicle while having a blood alcohol content of or above 0.08g of alcohol per 100ml of blood commits an offence.

        (2)         If a court convicts a person of an offence against this section —

            (a)         the person is liable to the relevant penalty in the Table to this subsection; and

            (b)         the court shall order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for not less than the relevant minimum period of disqualification in the Table to this subsection.

Table

Blood alcohol content (g/100ml)		1st offence	2nd offence	Subsequent offence
≥ 0.08 but < 0.09	Min: Max: Disq:	8 PU 30 PU 3 months	16 PU 30 PU 6 months	16 PU 30 PU 6 months
≥ 0.09 but < 0.10	Min: Max: Disq:	10 PU 30 PU 3 months	16 PU 30 PU 6 months	16 PU 30 PU 7 months
≥ 0.10 but < 0.11	Min: Max: Disq:	10 PU 30 PU 4 months	20 PU 30 PU 6 months	20 PU 30 PU 8 months
≥ 0.11 but < 0.12	Min: Max: Disq:	12 PU 30 PU 4 months	20 PU 30 PU 7 months	20 PU 30 PU 9 months
≥ 0.12 but < 0.13	Min: Max: Disq:	12 PU 30 PU 5 months	24 PU 30 PU 8 months	24 PU 30 PU 10 months
≥ 0.13 but < 0.14	Min: Max: Disq:	14 PU 30 PU 5 months	24 PU 30 PU 10 months	24 PU 30 PU 12 months
≥ 0.14	Min: Max: Disq:	14 PU 30 PU 6 months	24 PU 30 PU 12 months	24 PU 30 PU 14 months

                Note:         ≥ signifies of or above
                        < signifies less than

        (2a)         For the purposes of the Table to subsection (2), an offence is a second or subsequent offence against this section irrespective of the blood alcohol content on the occasion of the commission of any previous offence against this section.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (2), where a person is convicted of an offence against this section any offence previously committed by him against section 63 or 67 shall be taken into account and be deemed to have been an offence against this section (but not to the exclusion of any other previous offence against this section) in determining whether that first-mentioned offence is a first, second or subsequent offence.

        (4)         A person charged with an offence against this section may, instead of being convicted of that offence, be convicted of an offence against section 64AA or where, at the time of the alleged offence, he was a person to whom section 64A(1) or 64AAA applied, an offence against section 64A(1) or 64AAA.

        [Section 64 amended by No. 71 of 1979 s. 9; No. 82 of 1982 s. 12; No. 11 of 1988 s. 24; No. 13 of 1992 s. 8; No. 50 of 1997 s. 6; No. 54 of 2006 s. 15 and 17(3) and (4); No. 39 of 2007 s. 6 and 32.]