Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Driver Licensing) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 (Qld)

Queensland Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Driver Licensing) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 Subordinate Legislation 2006 No. 62 made under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 Contents Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 23 (Allocation of demerit points) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Insertion of new s 24B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 24B Additional demerit points for driving more than 20km/h over the speed limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

s1 2 s5 Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Driver Licensing) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 No. 62, 2006 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Driver Licensing) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 . 2 Commencement This regulation commences on 13 April 2006. 3 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Transport Operations (Road UseManagement—Driver Licensing) Regulation 1999. 4 Amendment of s 23 (Allocation of demerit points) (1) Section 23(2)(c), ‘section 24 or 24A’— omit, insert— ‘section 24, 24A or 24B’. (2) Section 23(3), ‘sections 24 and 24A’— omit, insert— ‘sections 24, 24A and 24B’. 5 Insertion of new s 24B After section 24A— insert— ‘24B Additional demerit points for driving more than 20km/h over the speed limit ‘(1) This section applies to each category 1, 2 or 3 speeding offence committed after 12 April 2006, for which demerit points are recorded on a person’s traffic history under section 23. ‘(2) Each time further demerit points are recorded on the person’s traffic history under section 23 for a later category 1, 2 or 3

s5 3 s5 Transport Operations (Road Use Management—Driver Licensing) Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2006 No. 62, 2006 speeding offence committed within 1 year after the category 1, 2 or 3 speeding offence was committed, the following additional demerit points must be allocated for the later category 1, 2 or 3 speeding offence— (a) for a later category 1 speeding offence—4 demerit points; (b) for a later category 2 speeding offence—6 demerit points; (c) for a later category 3 speeding offence—8 demerit points. ‘(3) The additional demerit points are taken to be allocated on the day the later category 1, 2 or 3 speeding offence was committed. ‘(4) In this section— category 1 speeding offence means an offence for a contravention of the Queensland Road Rules, section 20 1 by driving more than 20km/h, but not more than 30km/h, over the speed limit. category 2 speeding offence means an offence for a contravention of the Queensland Road Rules, section 20 by driving more than 30km/h, but not more than 40km/h, over the speed limit. category 3 speeding offence means an offence for a contravention of the Queensland Road Rules, section 20 by driving more than 40km/h over the speed limit.’. ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 6 April 2006. 2 Notified in the gazette on 7 April 2006. 3 Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4 The administering agency is the Department of Transport. 1 Queensland Road Rules, section 20 (Obeying the speed limit)

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