Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT--DRIVER LICENSING) REGULATION 2021 - REG 219

219 Supervising learners—motorbikes

(1) A person (a
"supervisor" ) must not direct the riding of a motorbike on a road by another person who is authorised to learn to ride the motorbike under chapter 2 , section 174 or chapter 5 (a
"learner" ) unless the supervisor—

(a) holds an O type licence that authorises the supervisor to ride the motorbike; and

(b) has held an O type licence, that authorises the supervisor to ride the motorbike, for a period of at least 1 year; and

(c) if the supervisor is a passenger on the motorbike—is in a sidecar attached to the motorbike.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(2) Subsections (3) and (4) apply if the learner is authorised under chapter 5 to learn to ride the motorbike under an interstate licence issued under a corresponding law to chapter 4 , part 1 .

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the supervisor if the learner is not required to ride the motorbike under the direction of someone else in the jurisdiction that issued the interstate licence.

(4) The supervisor is taken to comply with subsection (1) if—

(a) the learner is required to ride the motorbike under the direction of someone else in the jurisdiction that issued the interstate licence; and

(b) the supervisor is complying with any requirements that apply to the supervisor in relation to directing the riding of the motorbike by the learner in the jurisdiction that issued the interstate licence.

Examples of requirements in relation to directing the riding of the motorbike by the learner—

a requirement that a person who directs the riding of the motorbike by the learner holds a particular category of driver licence or sits in a particular place on the motorbike