18Model driver licensing system

18 Model driver licensing system

(1) The Supporting Principles provide a system of licensing drivers of motor vehicles that are used on roads or road related areas that: (a) provides a means of authorising the driving of motor vehicles on roads and road related areas; and (b) enables the identification of licensed drivers of motor vehicles. (2) The Supporting Principles: (a) provide for the issue and renewal of driver licences, and for the imposition of conditions on driver licences; and (b) provide for the cancellation, variation and suspension of driver licences; and (c) fix the periods for which a driver licence or renewal remains in force; and (d) require the production of specified information by: (i) applicants for driver licences or renewals of driver licences; or (ii) holders of driver licences; and (e) provide for the issue of infringement notices for specified offences; and (f) provide for the recognition by the driver licensing authority of things done under a corresponding law of another jurisdiction; and (g) provide for a refund, in accordance with the Supporting Principles, of part of a licence fee where a driver licence is surrendered before it expires; and (h) provide for the collection of: (i) licence fees; and (ii) fees fixed under the amended driver licensing law or another law relating to services provided by the driver licensing authority; and (i) provide for the approval by the driver licensing authority of the form in which applications are to be made to the authority, and the form in which documents are to be issued by the authority, for the purposes of the Supporting Principles; and (j) provide that the amended driver licensing law, or specified provisions of the amended law, do not apply to a driver, or drivers of a kind, identified in the Supporting Principles; and (k) allow the driver licensing authority to revoke, in the manner and in circumstances specified in the Supporting Principles, an exemption for a driver, or drivers of a kind, given under the amended driver licensing law made for the purposes of paragraph (j); and (l) prescribe different classes of driver licences, and grade each class by reference to the driving skills required for each class, and the eligibility criteria for the issue of each class; and (m) allow the driver licensing authority to exempt a person from the requirement to hold a driver licence or a driver licence of a particular class (an exemption may be subject to conditions imposed by the driver licensing authority); and (n) provide for the maintenance of a driver licence register and a demerit points register; and (o) prescribe: (i) the form in which the driver licensing authority is to issue evidence of the authority to drive a motor vehicle provided by a driver licence; and (ii) the circumstances in which that evidence must be surrendered or returned to the driver licensing authority; and (p) prescribe transitional arrangements for the transition to the amended driver licensing law from the driver licensing system that was previously in operation. (3) The Supporting Principles prescribe the offences (relating to the driving or use of motor vehicles), and the number of demerit points incurred for each offence, that comprise the national schedule of demerit points. (4) The Supporting Principles list offences for breaches of the amended driver licensing law.