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Road Transport (General) Act 1999
78Effect on certain cancellations of quashing of conviction
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78 Effect on certain cancellations of quashing of conviction
etc
(a) a person’s driver licence is cancelled (whether or not by court
order) because the person is convicted or found guilty by a court
in Australia of an offence against a law of any jurisdiction; and
(b) the conviction or finding is quashed or set aside; and
(c) section 71 (Effect on disqualification of quashing of conviction
etc) does not apply to the cancellation.
(2) From the time the conviction or finding is quashed or set aside, the
driver licence is taken not to have been so cancelled.