18Restricted driver licences

18 Restricted driver licences

(1)  A person whose Australian driver licence (other than a learner licence) is, or is liable to be, suspended or cancelled because of –

(a) an accumulation of demerit points; or

(b) [Section 18 Subsection (1) amended by No. 69 of 2001, s. 8, Applied:10 Dec 2001] a disqualification order made by an Australian court; or

(c) [Section 18 Subsection (1) amended by No. 69 of 2001, s. 8, Applied:10 Dec 2001] an automatic statutory penalty –

may, subject to subsection (2) , apply to a court of petty sessions for an order authorising the issue of a restricted driver licence subject to conditions as specified in the order.

(2)  [Section 18 Subsection (2) amended by No. 68 of 2007, s. 15, Applied:19 Dec 2007] None of the following is entitled to apply for a restricted driver licence:

(a) a person whose Australian driver licence is, or is liable to be, suspended because of an accumulation of demerit points and who has, or had, the option of entering into an undertaking to be of good behaviour under the provisions of the demerit points scheme but did not take up, or proposes not to take up, that option;

(b) [Section 18 Subsection (2) amended by No. 68 of 2007, s. 15, Applied:19 Dec 2007] a person who, under section 25 , is subject or liable to a period of ineligibility to hold a driver licence because of an accumulation of demerit points;

(ba) [Section 18 Subsection (2) amended by No. 10 of 2008, s. 7, Applied:25 Aug 2008] [Section 18 Subsection (2) amended by No. 33 of 2017, s. 8, Applied:01 Jan 2018] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(c) [Section 18 Subsection (2) amended by No. 68 of 2007, s. 15, Applied:19 Dec 2007] a person who is disqualified from driving in accordance with a road safety disqualification notice.