Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Amendment Bill 2002 (Qld)

Queensland

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) AMENDMENT BILL 2002

Queensland

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) AMENDMENT BILL 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page 1 Short title... eee eee ene 4 2 Act amended .. 0... eee 4 3 Amendment of s 78 (Driving of motor vehicle without a driver licence

prohibited) eee eee eee 4 4 Insertion of news 78A ... 6.66 eee eee eee eee 6

78A Permit to drive—recently expired driver licence................ 6 5 Amendment of ch 7 (Transitional provisions, amendments and repeals). . . 6

PART 4—TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR TRANSPORT

OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) AMENDMENT

ACT 2002

195 Provision for particular disqualifications...................00. 7

196 Persons affected by amendment Act ................000000008 7

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995

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Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Amendment Bill 2002

The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Clause 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Amendment Act 2002.

Clause 2 Act amended

This Act amends the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995.

Clause 3 Amendment of s 78 (Driving of motor vehicle without a driver licence prohibited)

(1) Section 78(1), penalty, paragraph (a), 'under a'— omit, insert—

'by any'.

(2) Section 78—

insert—

'(1A) An infringement notice under the State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999 may be issued to a person for a contravention of subsection (1) only if—

(a) the person's driver licence authorising the person to drive the vehicle had recently expired; and

(b) the person had not, in the 5 years before the contravention, been convicted of another offence against subsection (1).'.