Section 38 - Vehicle and Traffic Act 1999 - Driver licensing scheme

38Driver licensing scheme

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38 Driver licensing scheme

(1) A driver licensing scheme is to be established under the regulations.

(2) The driver licensing scheme –

(a) is to provide for the issue, duration, variation, expiry, renewal, suspension, cancellation and surrender of driver licences and ancillary certificates; and

(b) may provide for the physical surrender or return of an Australian driver licence, foreign driver licence or ancillary certificate to the Registrar, a court or other authority or its recovery from the holder, former holder or other person in possession of it by the Registrar, a court or other authority; and

(c) may –

(i) provide for the classification of driver licences and ancillary certificates and define rights and obligations attaching to each licence class; and

(ii) provide for driver licences to be issued as learner, provisional or probationary licences; and

(iii) establish codes for designating licence classes or types, or both; and

(d) may establish the criteria of eligibility for holding driver licences or ancillary certificates generally or for a particular class of driver licence or ancillary certificate; and

(e) may prescribe how an application for or related to a driver licence or an ancillary certificate (or the renewal of a driver licence or an ancillary certificate) is to be made and the requirements with which the applicant must, or may be required to, comply; and

(f) may require specified information to be included on the form in which driver licences, ancillary certificates or other documents related to the driver licensing scheme are to be issued; and

(g) may –

(i) provide for the issue of a driver licence or an ancillary certificate on conditions specified in the regulations or to be determined at the Registrar's discretion (or on conditions of both kinds); and

(ii) provide for the later imposition of conditions (of either or both kinds) either at the time of renewal or at any other time; and

(iii) establish codes for designating standard licence conditions; and