28Driver licensing system

28 Driver licensing system (1) A regulation is to provide for a system of licensing drivers of motor vehicles used on roads or road related areas that provides a way of authorising the driving of motor vehicles on roads and road related areas and identifying people as licensed drivers of motor vehicles. (2) A regulation may also–– (a) make provision in relation to— (i) the issue or refusal to issue driver licences; and (ii) the renewal and the refusal to renew driver licences; and (iii) the imposition of conditions on driver licences; and (iv) the replacement of and refusal to replace driver licences; and (b) make provision in relation to 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 information by— (i) applicants for driver licences or for renewals or variation of driver licences; or (ii) holders of driver licences; and (e) require the production of information by health practitioners relating to a person’s fitness to drive a motor vehicle; and (f) make provision in relation to the recognition by the road transport authority of things done under a corresponding law; and (g) provide that this Act, or a stated provision of this Act, does not apply, or ceases to apply, to people prescribed by regulation; and

page 28 Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1999 (h) provide that people prescribed by regulation are exempt from this Act or a stated provision of this Act; and (i) allow the road transport authority to revoke, in the way and in circumstances prescribed by regulation, an exemption given under a regulation made for paragraph (h); and (j) prescribe different classes and kinds of driver licences, grade each class or kind by reference to the driving skills required for the class or kind, and prescribe the eligibility criteria for the issue of each class or kind of licence; and (k) allow the road transport authority to exempt people from holding a driver licence (whether or not subject to conditions imposed by the authority); and (l) make provision in relation to the keeping of the driver licence register or demerit points register; and (m) prescribe the circumstances in which driver licences must be surrendered or returned to the road transport authority; and (n) make provision in relation to the disclosure of personal information in the driver licence register or demerit points register; and (o) make provision in relation to competency-based assessment schemes relating to driver licensing; and (p) require people who are— (i) applicants for driver licences or for renewal or variation of driver licences; and (ii) holders of driver licences; and

Regulations Division 2.4 (iii) people exempted by regulation from holding a driver licence; to submit to tests or medical or other examinations to assess fitness to obtain, hold or continue to hold a driver licence, a varied driver licence or an exemption from holding a driver (q) require the holder of an Australian driver licence issued under the law of another jurisdiction to submit to tests or medical or other examinations to assess the person’s fitness to drive in the ACT; and (r) provide for the disclosure of information about a person’s fitness to drive a motor vehicle to an entity of another jurisdiction that corresponds to the road transport authority; and (s) make provision in relation to driver training schemes; and (t) make provision in relation to the accreditation of driving instructors, including the conduct and content of driving instruction and examinations; and (u) require a person convicted or found guilty of a disqualifying offence, that relates to alcohol, against the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977 to complete a course approved by the road transport authority about the effects of alcohol, including its effects on driving and health; and (v) require a person convicted or found guilty of a disqualifying offence, that relates to a prescribed drug, against the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977 to complete a course approved by the road transport authority about the effects of drugs, including their effects on driving and health; and (w) make provision in relation to the imposition of a condition on a person’s driver licence requiring an alcohol ignition interlock device to be fitted to a motor vehicle driven by the person; and