56Registrar to suspend driver licence

56 Registrar to suspend driver licence

(1)  The Director is to give the Registrar written notice of the Director's direction in respect of an enforcement debtor’s driver licence.

(2)  [Section 56 Subsection (2) substituted by No. 4 of 2011, s. 20, Applied:01 Jun 2011] Subject to section 55(2) and (3) , on receipt of a notification under subsection (1) , the Registrar must –

(a) suspend the relevant driver licence; and

(b) whether or not the enforcement debtor holds a driver licence, record the direction in the driver licence register kept under the Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999  –

until notified by the Director that the suspension has been revoked.

(2A)  [Section 56 Subsection (2A) inserted by No. 4 of 2011, s. 20, Applied:01 Jun 2011] On suspending the driver licence of an enforcement debtor under subsection (2) , the Registrar must give to the enforcement debtor written notice of –

(a) that suspension; and

(b) the day on which the suspension takes effect.

(3)  The suspension of a driver licence under this section does not affect the powers that a court or the Registrar may exercise under another Act to suspend or cancel the licence.

(4)  [Section 56 Subsection (4) substituted by No. 4 of 2011, s. 20, Applied:01 Jun 2011] If a driver licence is suspended under this section, the licence may not be renewed or replaced, or a duplicate of the licence issued, while the suspension is in place.

(5)  [Section 56 Subsection (5) substituted by No. 4 of 2011, s. 20, Applied:01 Jun 2011] An enforcement debtor is ineligible to be issued with a driver licence while a direction of the Director in respect of the enforcement debtor's driver licence is recorded, in accordance with , in the driver licence register kept under the .