Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations Australian Capital Territory Current Regulations(1) A notice of licence suspension served on a person by the road transport authority under this section—
(a) must state the date of the notice; and
(b) must state details of the demerit points recorded in the demerit points register taken into account for the notice; and
(c) must state the date, not earlier than 21 days after the notice is served on the person, when the suspension of the person's driver licence is to begin (the date of effect ); and
(d) must state the period of licence suspension; and
(e) may include any additional information the road transport authority considers appropriate.
(2) The period of licence suspension is 3 months, beginning on the date of effect.
(3) If the person is served with a notice of licence suspension under this section, any driver licence held by the person is suspended for the period of licence suspension even though the person may not have incurred 4 or more demerit points under the Act (or this regulation) for the suspension of the kind of driver licence held by the person.
Examples
1 If a person incurs 4 demerit points for a provisional licence held by the person and, before a notice of licence suspension takes effect, the person is issued with a full licence, the full licence is suspended even though the person has not incurred 12 or more demerit points (see title="A1999-78">Act
, s 16).
2 If a driver licence held by the person mentioned in example 1 included an additional class, the additional class is also suspended.
(4) A person whose driver licence is suspended under this section is not entitled to apply for, or be issued with, a restricted licence during the suspension period.
(5) At the beginning of the period of licence suspension under this section, all demerit points recorded in the demerit points register on the date of the notice of licence suspension under this section, and taken into account for the notice, are taken to be deleted.
(6) Subsection (5) does not prevent the road transport authority from keeping records of deleted demerit points.