25Period of ineligibility for unlicensed drivers

25 Period of ineligibility for unlicensed drivers

(1)  A person who does not hold a current driver licence is liable to a period of ineligibility to hold a driver licence because of the accumulation of demerit points as follows:

(a) if –

(i) the person has never held a full licence and has not progressed beyond the status of a provisional driver; and

(ii) the demerit points recorded against the person for traffic offences committed during a period of 12 months or less amount, in aggregate, to 4 or more;

(b) whether or not the person has ever held a full licence – if the demerit points recorded against the person for traffic offences committed during a period of 3 years or less amount, in aggregate, to 12 or more.

(1A)  [Section 25 Subsection (1A) inserted by No. 10 of 2008, s. 9, Applied:25 Aug 2008] Subsection (1)(a) does not apply to a person who has held a provisional licence for the required period to be eligible to obtain a full licence but has never held a full licence.

(2)  If a person becomes liable to a period of ineligibility under subsection (1) , the Registrar must serve a notice of ineligibility stating the period of ineligibility and when the period is to commence.

(3)  The period of ineligibility is –

(a) for a person who has never held a full licence and has not progressed beyond the status of a provisional driver – 3 months (unless the person would have been liable to a longer period of ineligibility if paragraph (b) was applicable, in which case the longer period applies); or

(b) in any other case as follows:

(i) if the aggregate number of demerit points recorded against the person when he or she became liable to the period of ineligibility is 12 or more but not more than 15 – 3 months;

(ii) if the aggregate number of demerit points recorded against the person when he or she became liable to the period of ineligibility is 16 or more but not more than 19 – 4 months;