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ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) ACT 1998 - SCHEDULE 99
DICTIONARY
(Section 4)
"Australian driver licence" means:
(a) a driver licence, or
(b) a licence,
probationary licence, conditional licence, restricted licence, provisional
licence or driver licence receipt (other than a learner licence) issued under
a law in force in a State or internal Territory authorising the holder to
drive a motor vehicle on a road or road related area.
"Australian Transport Council" means the Australian Transport Council referred
to in section 4 of the National Transport Commission Act 2003 of the
Commonwealth or its successor.
"Authority" means Roads and Maritime Services constituted under the
Transport Administration Act 1988 .
"class" of a driver licence means a class of licence established by the
regulations.
"conditional licence" means a licence issued as a conditional licence in
accordance with the regulations.
"corresponding law" means the law of another jurisdiction under which
authority is given to drive motor vehicles on roads or road related areas.
"demerit points register" means the register required to be maintained under
section 14.
"drive" includes having control over the steering, movement or propulsion of a
vehicle and also includes ride a vehicle.
"driver licence" means: (a) a licence (including a conditional licence, a
provisional licence and a learner licence) issued in accordance with the
regulations authorising the holder to drive one or more classes of motor
vehicle on a road or road related area, or
(b) a driver licence receipt.
"driver licence receipt" means a receipt that: (a) is issued following an
application for an Australian driver licence and after payment of any
applicable fee, and
(b) authorises the holder to drive one or more classes of
motor vehicle on a road or road related area.
"driver licence register" means the register required to be maintained under
section 8 and the regulations.
"exercise" of a function includes the performance of a duty.
"function" includes a power, authority and duty.
"jurisdiction" means a State, the Commonwealth or a Territory.
"learner licence" means a licence or permit issued to a person under a law in
force in a State or internal Territory to authorise the person to drive a
motor vehicle on a road or road related area for the purpose of learning to
drive a motor vehicle.
"motor vehicle" means a vehicle that is built to be propelled by a motor that
forms part of the vehicle.
"national schedule of demerit points" means the driving offences and
corresponding demerit points prescribed in the regulations as comprising the
national schedule of demerit points.
"penalty notice" means: (a) a notice issued under Part 5.3 of the Road
Transport (General) Act 2005 , or
(b) a penalty reminder notice issued under
the Fines Act 1996 .
"photograph" includes a digitised, electronic or computer generated image in a
form approved by the Authority.
"probationary licence" means a licence to drive a motor vehicle: (a) issued to
a person who applies for a driver licence following a period of
disqualification from driving ordered by a court in Australia, or
(b) issued
to replace an equivalent licence issued under a corresponding law.
"professional driver" means a person whose primary work is personally driving
a motor vehicle on roads in or outside of the State, and includes a person of
a class prescribed by the regulations as a professional driver, but does not
include a person of a class prescribed by the regulations as not a
professional driver.
"provisional licence" means a licence (other than a learner licence) to drive
a motor vehicle, issued under a law in force in a State or internal Territory,
that is subject to conditions, restrictions, or qualifications.
"provisional P1 licence" means: (a) a provisional licence issued in accordance
with clause 20 (1) of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2008 ,
or
(b) any class of licence prescribed by the regulations under this Act that
replaces any such licence.
"provisional P2 licence" means: (a) a provisional licence issued in accordance
with clause 27 (1) of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2008 ,
or
(b) any class of licence prescribed by the regulations under this Act that
replaces any such licence.
"restricted licence" means an authority to drive a motor vehicle issued at the
direction of a court in Australia that authorises the holder to drive only in
the course of his or her employment or in other specified restricted
circumstances.
"road" means an area that is open to or used by the public and is developed
for, or has as one of its main uses, the driving or riding of motor vehicles.
"road related area" means: (a) an area that divides a road, or
(b) a footpath
or nature strip adjacent to a road, or
(c) an area that is open to the public
and is designated for use by cyclists or animals, or
(d) an area that is not
a road and that is open to or used by the public for driving, riding or
parking vehicles, or
(e) a shoulder of a road, or
(f) any other area that is
open to or used by the public and that has been declared under section 15 of
the Road Transport (General) Act 2005 to be an area to which specified
provisions of this Act or the regulations apply.
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