Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 150

150 Regulating driver management

(1) A regulation may prescribe rules about the management of drivers, including, for example—

(a) standards about driver skills and knowledge; and

(aa) the training of drivers; and

(ab) the approval of driver trainers and driver trainer competency assessors; and

(b) the testing and licensing of drivers; and

(c) rules about licences, including, in particular, the circumstances in which, and the reasons for which, they can be cancelled or suspended or conditions imposed on them; and

(d) requiring the keeping of a register of licences; and

(e) providing for the circumstances in which details of the register’s contents can be given to someone; and

(f) the granting of exemptions from conditions of licences.

(1A) Without limiting subsection (1) (c) , a regulation may provide that a court may make orders, on the basis of special hardship, authorising persons whose licences have been suspended to continue to drive motor vehicles under Queensland driver licences in stated circumstances (
"special hardship orders" ), including, for example—

(a) the persons who are eligible, and who are not eligible, to apply for the orders; and

(aa) how and when applications for the orders are to be made; and

(b) the criteria to be used in deciding applications for the orders; and

(c) the types of restrictions the court may or must apply to licences; and

(ca) the periods for which orders are effective; and

(d) variation of the orders; and

(e) the consequences for failing to comply with the orders, including, for example, the creation of offences and the disqualification of persons from holding or obtaining driver licences.

(2) A regulation may prescribe the maximum fees payable for approved courses for pre-licence motorbike driver training.

(3) In this section—

"approval" includes accreditation.