Driving Instructors Act 1992
54CCompulsory comprehensive motor vehicle insurance
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54C Compulsory comprehensive motor vehicle insurance
54C Compulsory comprehensive motor vehicle insurance
(1) Subject to the regulations—
(a) a person must not, while acting as a driving instructor, use any motor vehicle that is not covered by a comprehensive motor vehicle insurance policy, and
(b) a person must not permit another person, while acting as a driving instructor as that person’s employee or agent, to use any motor vehicle that is not covered by a comprehensive motor vehicle insurance policy.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a motor vehicle used for driving instruction purposes that is supplied by the person receiving the driving instruction.
(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the nature and extent of the cover to be provided by a comprehensive motor vehicle insurance policy referred to in subsection (1).
ss 54A–54C: Ins 2002 No 127, Sch 1 [15].