New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (DRIVER LICENSING) REGULATION 2017 - REG 35A

35A TfNSW may extend provisional licence period for provisional P2 licences

(1) Transport for NSW may extend, for a period of 6 months, the provisional licence period for a person who is or was the holder of a provisional P2 licence on each occasion that--

(a) Transport for NSW gives the holder a notice of licence suspension or a notice of licence ineligibility under Division 3 of Part 3.2 of the Act, or

(b) Transport for NSW suspends the provisional P2 licence under section 59 of the Act, or

(c) a police officer gives the person an immediate licence suspension notice under section 224(1)(a1) or (c) of the Act, or

(d) Transport for NSW refuses, under clause 56(2)(c), an application for issue or variation of a driver licence.

(2) Transport for NSW may extend a provisional licence period under this clause only if the provisional P2 licence is issued or renewed on or after 20 November 2017.

(3) The period of 6 months for which the provisional licence period may be extended does not include--

(a) any period during which the provisional P2 licence is suspended otherwise than on medical grounds, or

(b) if Transport for NSW gives the holder a notice of licence ineligibility--any relevant ineligibility period.

(4) Transport for NSW must cancel the extension of a provisional licence period under this clause if--

(a) the notice of licence suspension, notice of licence ineligibility or immediate licence suspension notice is withdrawn, or

(b) the decision to suspend the provisional P2 licence, or to give the relevant notice, is overturned on appeal, or

(c) the provisional P2 licence is cancelled at any time by operation of section 207 of the Act.