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ROAD TRANSPORT (SAFETY AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT) ACT 1999 - SECT 8

Menacing driving

    (1)     A person must not drive a motor vehicle on a road or road related area in a way that menaces someone else with the intention of menacing the other person.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.

    (2)     A person must not drive a motor vehicle on a road or road related area in a way that menaces someone else if the person ought to have known that the other person might be menaced.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.

    (3)     This section applies—

        (a)     whether the other person is menaced by a threat of personal injury or by a threat of damage to property; and

        (b)     whether or not the other person or that property is on a road or road related area.

    (4)     A person does not commit an offence against this section if the person could not, in the circumstances, reasonably avoid menacing the other person.

    (5)     A person cannot be found guilty of an offence—

        (a)     both against subsection (1) and against subsection (2) arising out of a single incident; or

        (b)     both against this section and against section 6 (1) or section 7 (1) arising out of a single incident.

Note     Automatic licence disqualification applies to an offence against this section (see Road Transport (General) Act 1999

, s 63).



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