36BOffence for driver to provide bus service without appropriate driver licence

36B Offence for driver to provide bus service without appropriate driver licence

(1) An accredited bus operator that is accredited in respect of a bus service that is not a commercial bus service or local bus service must ensure that a person driving a motor vehicle that is a bus for that bus service holds an appropriate driver licence for the category of motor vehicle that person is driving for the accredited bus operator.

(2) In subsection (1)—

appropriate driver licence, for a category of motor vehicle, means—

(a) if the accredited bus operator has been given permission under section 36 to use drivers who hold a probationary driver licence to operate a bus service—

(i) a full driver licence for that category of motor vehicle; or

(ii) a probationary driver licence for that category of motor vehicle; or

(iii) a driver licence issued in another jurisdiction that is equivalent to a licence specified in subparagraph (i) or (ii);

(b) in any other case—

(i) a full driver licence for that category of motor vehicle; or

(ii) a driver licence issued in another jurisdiction that is equivalent to the licence specified in subparagraph (i);

full driver licence has the same meaning as it has in the Road Safety Act 1986.