Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (Double Demerit Points) Regulation 1999 (1999-660) [GG No 141 of 17.12.1999, p 11954] (NSW)

1999 No 660

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) New South Wales

Amendment (Double Demerit Points)

Regulation 1999

under the

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998.

CARL SCULLY, M.P.,

Minister for Roads

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are to amend the Road Transport (Driver

Licensing) Regulation 1999:

(a)	to expand the definition of over a long weekend for the purposes of calculating double demerit points to include public holidays declared on Tuesdays and Thursdays and public holidays declared for part of a day, and
(b)	to ensure that the 29 December 1999 is also subject to the double demerit point regime.

This Regulation is made under the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998, including sections 15 and 19 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 141 of 17 December 1999, page 11954	Page 1
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1999 No 660
Clause 1	Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (Double Demerit Points) Regulation 1999

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment
(Double Demerit Points) Regulation 1999

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Road Transport (Driver Licensing)
Amendment (Double Demerit Points) Regulation 1999.

2 Amendment of Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 1999

The Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 1999 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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1999 No 660

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (Double Demerit Points)

Regulation 1999

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 36 Demerit points and offences

Omit clause 36 (5). Insert instead:

(5) In this clause:

long weekend means a period of consecutive days consisting
of:

(a)

a Saturday and Sunday (the weekend), and

(b)

one or more days that have been declared to be public holidays (or part of which have been declared to be public holidays) throughout the State and that are any of the following:

(i)	the Thursday or Friday immediately before the weekend,
(ii)	the Monday or Tuesday immediately after the weekend, and

(c)

if the Thursday (but not the Friday) immediately before the weekend is such a public holiday—the Friday, and

(d)

if the Tuesday (but not the Monday) immediately after the weekend is such a public holiday—the Monday.

over a long weekend means during:

(a)	the period commencing on the day immediately before the first day of a long weekend and ending with the last day of a long weekend (inclusive), or
(b)	any of the following days or periods: 29 December 1999

BY AUTHORITY

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