Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2000
130Demerit points incurred by restricted licence holders
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130 Demerit points incurred by restricted licence holders (1) This section applies to a person if the person incurs 2 or more demerit points while the person is the holder of a restricted licence issued by the road transport authority. (2) The road transport authority must serve a notice of licence cancellation on the person.
Demerit points–restricted licences Division 8.3 (3) If the person’s licence is suspended (the current suspension) under a territory law, before serving a notice of licence cancellation the road transport authority must serve a notice on the person stating that— (b) the licence cancellation under this section is additional to, not (c) the person will be served with a notice of licence cancellation under this section. (5) The notice of licence cancellation— served on the person, when the cancellation of the person’s driver licence takes effect (the date of effect); and (d) must state that the person is disqualified from applying for, or being issued with, a driver licence (including another restricted licence) for the remainder of the period for which the person was originally disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver (6) If the person is served with a notice of licence cancellation under this (a) the person’s driver licence is cancelled on the date of effect; and
(b) the person is disqualified from applying for, or being issued with, a driver licence (including a restricted licence) for the remainder of the period for which the person was originally disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver licence. If a person incurs 2 or more demerit points while the holder of a restricted licence and, before a notice of licence cancellation takes effect, the person is issued with a probationary licence, the probationary licence is cancelled even though the person has not incurred demerit points while the holder of a probationary licence. (7) On the date of effect, all demerit points recorded in the demerit points register on the date of the notice of licence cancellation under this section, and taken into account for the notice, are taken to be deleted. (8) Subsection (7) does not prevent the road transport authority from Division 8.4 Demerit points—probationary