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Motor Vehicle (Third Party Insurance) Act 1943
18Power to suspend or cancel licences
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##### 18. Power to suspend or cancel licences
(1) Any police officer or constable or the Commission may apply to the Magistrates Court for an order that any person be disqualified for such period as the court fixes from holding and obtaining a driver’s licence under the *Road Traffic (Authorisation to Drive) Act 2008*.
(2) If it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is likely, in the event of his continuing to drive motor vehicles, to endanger unduly the safety of the public the court may make such order under subsection (1) as it thinks fit.
(3) This section is supplementary to section 105 of the *Sentencing Act 1995*.
[Section 18 amended: No. 31 of 1948 s. 20; No. 58 of 1974 s. 32; No. 51 of 1986 s. 46(2); No 78 of 1995 s. 74; No. 84 of 2004 s. 80; No. 8 of 2012 s. 139.]