Bus Safety Act 2009
55KApplication for driver accreditation
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55K Application for driver accreditation
(1) A person may apply to Safe Transport Victoria for the issue of a driver accreditation.
(a) be made in the manner and form approved by Safe Transport Victoria; and
(b) be accompanied by—
(i) the information and things required by Safe Transport Victoria (if any); and
(ii) the fee (if any) for the application determined by Safe Transport Victoria under section 71A.
(3) Safe Transport Victoria may require any one or more of the following in relation to an application—
(a) an applicant do a thing specified by Safe Transport Victoria that Safe Transport Victoria reasonably requires in order to assess the application;
(b) verification, by a statutory declaration, of any statement made or information given for the purposes of the application;
(c) an applicant give further information for the purposes of the application.
(4) Any further information given by the applicant under subsection (3)(c) must be—
(a) if the regulations so provide, signed in accordance with the regulations; and
(b) declared by each signatory to be true and correct.
(5) Safe Transport Victoria may require an applicant to—
(a) be photographed at a place and in a manner specified by Safe Transport Victoria; and
(b) give Safe Transport Victoria a specimen signature at a place and in a manner specified by Safe Transport Victoria.
S. 55L inserted by No. 34/2023 s. 6.