Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) (NO. 78 OF 1999) - SECT 34

(1)     The road transport authority may refuse to issue or renew a driver licence if—

        (a)     the applicant has not gone to a place designated by the road transport authority and had a photograph taken, by a person authorised by the authority to take photographs of applicants, that is suitable for use on the driver licence; or

        (b)     in the authority's opinion it is impracticable for the applicant to go to a designated place and the applicant has not given the authority a photograph of the applicant that the authority considers is suitable for use on the driver licence; or

        (c)     the applicant has not given, in support of the application, evidence that is required under the regulations or by the authority to establish the applicant's identity or home address.

(2)     A photograph taken or provided under this section must not be used by the road transport authority except for the reproduction on a driver licence of a likeness of the person.

(3)     In particular, any negative of, or data that can be used for reproducing the likeness of a person depicted in, a photograph taken under this section must be destroyed by the road transport authority after the issue or renewal of the driver licence concerned.

(4)     A person who is employed or engaged in relation to any aspect of the production of driver licences that include a photograph of the holder, or is otherwise concerned in the administration of the road transport legislation, must not reproduce, by photographic or other means, the likeness of a person that is depicted (or is to be depicted) on a licence, otherwise than in the administration of this Act.

Maximum penalty (for subsection (4)):     20 penalty units.