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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
33GUndertaking to be of good driving behaviour
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33G Undertaking to be of good driving behaviour
(1) A person subject to a suspension notice may (if eligible) undertake,
as an alternative to undergoing the suspension notified in the
notice, to be of good driving behaviour for 12 months.
Note
Section 33H deals with a person's eligibility to undertake to be of good driving
behaviour.
(2) To undertake to be of good driving behaviour, the person must:
(a) complete the approved form for giving the undertaking; and
(b) lodge the undertaking, in person, at any office of the Registrar
within 21 days after the date of the notice.
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(3) The effective date for the beginning of the good driving period
becomes the day after the undertaking is lodged.
(4) The good driving period ceases to run (or does not begin to run, as
the case may be) during a period of licence suspension or
disqualification under another law, and whatever period of good
driving behaviour has not been served begins to run immediately
the period of suspension or disqualification ends.
(5) In this section:
office of the Registrar includes a police station that functions as
an office of the Registrar.