Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (AUTHORISATION TO DRIVE) REGULATIONS 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Citation  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Terms used in these regulations  
   4.      Novice driver  
   5.      Classes of motor vehicles  
   6.      Offences for which traffic infringement notice may be given  

   PART 2 -- Driver licensing  

           Division 1 -- Drivers’ licences generally  

   7.      Driver’s licence  
   8.      What a driver’s licence authorises  
   9.      Licence may be provisional  
   10.     Night-time driving restriction for novice driver (type 1A)  
   11.     Carrying passengers for reward not generally authorised  
   12.     Endorsement to allow carrying passengers for reward  
   13.     Trailer towing limits  
   14.     Recognition and effect of constraint in another jurisdiction  

           Division 2 -- Eligibility to hold a driver’s licence  

   15.     Minimum age generally required to hold driver’s licence  
   16.     Ability to safely drive motor vehicles on roads  
   17.     How ability to control relevant motor vehicles can be shown  
   18.     Certain evidence of ability to safely drive motor vehicles  
   19.     Drivers who are 75 years of age or more  
   20.     Knowledge of traffic laws and safe driving techniques  
   21.     Prerequisite driver’s licences  
   22.     Waiving certain requirements in special cases  

           Division 3 -- Applying for grant or variation of driver’s licence  

   23.     Manner and form  
   24.     Grant of licence  
   25.     Some grounds for refusing to grant driver’s licence  
   26.     Applicant may have to satisfy Director General again  
   27.     Driving tests  
   28.     Variation of driver’s licence  
   29.     Surrender of driver’s licence  

           Division 4 -- Driver’s licence documents  

   30.     Issue of licence document  
   31.     Issue of replacement licence document  
   32.     Return of licence document  

           Division 5 -- Other provisions about drivers’ licences  

   33.     Conditions  
   34.     Procedures to do with conditions  
   35.     Consequence of breaching a condition  
   36.     P plates  
   37.     Duration of driver’s licence  
   38.     Grant of driver’s licence by way of renewal  
   39.     Application made after recent expiry of driver’s licence  
   40.     Change of licence holder’s address  
   41.     Director General suspending or cancelling driver’s licence  
   42.     Reviewable decisions  
   43.     Disclosing certain information in driver’s licence register  

   PART 3 -- Learner drivers  

   44.     What learner’s permit authorises  
   45.     Driving instructors who are not licensed as instructors  
   46.     Minimum age for holding learner’s permit  
   47.     Knowledge of traffic laws and safe driving techniques  
   48.     Prerequisite driver authorisation  
   49.     Conditions  
   50.     Consequence of breaching a condition  
   51.     L plates  
   52.     Applying for learner’s permit  
   53.     Issue of permit document  
   54.     Issue of replacement permit document  
   55.     Director General suspending or cancelling learner’s permit  

   PART 4 -- Other matters about driver authorisations  

   56.     Certain motor vehicles may be driven without licence  
   57.     Australian driver licence may authorise learning  
   58.     Director General may permit certain driving without licence  
   59.     Foreign driving authorisation not preventing grant of driver’s licence  
   60.     Authorisation of another Australian jurisdiction to be recognised  
   61.     Authorisation under foreign law to be recognised  
   62.     Effect of recognising other driving authorisation  
   63.     Excluding person from being authorised by regulation 62  
   64.     Another jurisdiction’s driving authorisation document to be carried  
   65.     Duty to reveal things that might impair ability  

   PART 5 -- Repeal and transitional provisions  

   66.     Repeal  
   67.     Transitional provisions  
           SCHEDULE 1 -- Classes of motor vehicles  
           SCHEDULE 2 -- Classes of authorisation to drive  
           SCHEDULE 3 -- Vehicle running costs  
           SCHEDULE 4 -- Trailer towing limits  
           SCHEDULE 5 -- Motor vehicles that may be used to show relevant ability to control  
           SCHEDULE 6 -- Licence prerequisites for drivers’ licences  
           SCHEDULE 7 -- Notations to indicate certain conditions apply  
           SCHEDULE 8 -- Licence prerequisites for learners’ permits  
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