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Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999
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### 19C Automatic suspension of licence for road safety disqualification notice
> [*\[Section 19C of Part 3 Inserted by No. 68 of 2007, s. 16, Applied:19 Dec 2007\]*](/view/html/inforce/2007-12-19/act-2007-068#GS16@EN)
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> > (1) [*\[Section 19C Subsection (1) amended by No. 38 of 2017, s. 69, Applied:03 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-03/act-2017-038#GS69@Hpa@EN) If a person is disqualified from driving in accordance with a road safety disqualification notice, his or her driver licence is suspended for the period of disqualification determined in accordance with the notice.
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> > (2) [*\[Section 19C Subsection (2) amended by No. 38 of 2017, s. 69, Applied:03 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-03/act-2017-038#GS69@Hpb@EN) The suspension imposed by [subsection (1)](#GS19A@Gs1@EN) is in addition to any other penalty that the person may be liable to in respect of the offence that resulted in the person being given the road safety disqualification notice.
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> > (3) A period of suspension under this section takes effect –
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> > > > (a) [*\[Section 19C Subsection (3) amended by No. 38 of 2017, s. 69, Applied:03 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-03/act-2017-038#GS69@Hpc@EN) if the person is not subject to a current period of disqualification, licence suspension or ineligibility to hold a driver licence as a result of the accumulation of demerit points, as soon as the person is given the road safety disqualification notice; or
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> > > > (b) if, at the time of being given the notice, the person is subject to a current period of disqualification, licence suspension or ineligibility to hold a driver licence as a result of the accumulation of demerit points, on the expiration of that period of disqualification, suspension or ineligibility.