Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations(1) This section applies to a person if the person incurs 4 or more demerit points within the previous 3 years while the person is the holder of a learner or provisional licence issued by the road transport authority.
Note Demerit points are incurred on the day when the offence to which the demerit points relate was committed (see title="A1999-78">Act
, s 13B (2)).
(2) The road transport authority must serve a notice of licence suspension on the person under section 125.
(3) If the person's licence is already suspended (the current suspension ) under a territory law, before serving a notice of licence suspension the road transport authority must serve a notice on the person stating that—
(a) the person has incurred the demerit points; and
(b) the licence suspension under section 125 is additional to, not concurrent with, the current suspension; and
(c) the person will be served with a notice of licence suspension under section 125.
Note For how documents may be served, see the href="http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2001-14" title="A2001-14">Legislation Act
, pt 19.5.
(4) Failure to comply with subsection (3) does not affect the validity of anything done by the road transport authority or a court.
(5) In this section:
previous 3 years means the 3 year period ending on the day when the person last committed an offence for which demerit points have been recorded against the person.