47AExemption from requirement to hold motor cycle licence – postal worker driving postal vehicle

47A Exemption from requirement to hold motor cycle licence – postal worker driving postal vehicle

[Regulation 47A Inserted by S.R. 2023, No. 89, Applied:20 Dec 2023]

(1)  In this regulation –

Australia Post has the same meaning as in the Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 of the Commonwealth;

postal vehicle means a motor vehicle that is a motor trike that –

(a) is a learner approved motor cycle that has an electric motor as its sole means of propulsion; and

(b) has a maximum motor cycle speed not exceeding 50 kilometres per hour;

postal worker means a person who is employed, or engaged, to deliver mail and parcels within Tasmania for, or on behalf of, Australia Post.

(2)  A person is exempt from the requirement to hold a motor cycle licence when driving a postal vehicle on a public street if that person, at the time at which the person is driving the postal vehicle –

(a) is a postal worker; and

(b) is driving the postal vehicle in the person’s capacity as a postal worker; and

(c) holds a driver licence, in the hierarchy of licence classes, other than a learner licence in relation to a car.