Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (High Performance Vehicle Scheme) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Road Transport (Driver Licensing)

Amendment (High Performance Vehicle

Scheme) Regulation 2014

under the

Road Transport Act 2013

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Road Transport Act 2013.

DUNCAN GAY, MLC

Minister for Roads and Freight

Explanatory note
A provisional drivers licence is currently subject to a condition that the holder must not drive a high performance vehicle. The object of this Regulation is to amend the definition of high performance vehicle in the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2008 to include vehicles with a power to mass ratio greater than 130 kilowatts per tonne, vehicles with certain modifications and certain other vehicles listed by Roads and Maritime Services. The definition will no longer refer to vehicles with 8 or more cylinders or vehicles with turbocharged or supercharged engines.

This Regulation is made under the Road Transport Act 2013, including section 23 (the general regulation-making power).

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (High Performance Vehicle Scheme) Regulation 2014 [NSW]

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (High

Performance Vehicle Scheme) Regulation 2014

under the

Road Transport Act 2013

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Amendment (High
Performance Vehicle Scheme) Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 August 2014 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2008

Clause 32 High performance vehicle restrictions

Omit clause 32 (2). Insert instead:

(2)

For the purposes of this clause, a high performance vehicle is a vehicle:

(a)	that has a power to mass ratio greater than 130 kilowatts per tonne, or
(b)	that has had any modification made to the vehicle’s engine listed for the time being in any order in force under clause 76AB of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2007 that increases the power to mass ratio of the vehicle, or
(c)	that is listed for the time being in the Authority’s publication Novice Driver—High performance vehicle restrictions as a high performance vehicle for the purposes of this clause.

(2A)

If, as a result of an amendment to this clause, a vehicle that was not previously classified as a high performance vehicle becomes a high performance vehicle, subclause (1) does not apply to a provisional licence holder driving that vehicle if the licence holder was a provisional licence holder immediately before the commencement of the amendment and continues to hold that provisional licence.

(2B)

For the purposes of this clause, the power to mass ratio of a vehicle is to be calculated in the manner determined by the Authority and notified on its website.