Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) The holder of a probationary driver licence must not drive a probationary prohibited vehicle on a highway.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to—
(a) the holder of a probationary driver licence who is driving a probationary prohibited vehicle—
(i) in the course of the person's employment and at the request of the person's employer; or
(ii) in the course of the person's business or to or from the workplace of that business, providing that an Australian Business Number is in force in relation to the person's business; or
(iii) if a person who at the relevant time holds a full driver licence that authorises the person to drive that vehicle is sitting beside the driver and is supervising the driver; or
Reg. 58(2)(b) amended by S.R. No. 172/2019 reg. 5(Sch. 2 item 40).
(b) the holder of a probationary driver licence who has been exempted from the requirement in subregulation (1) by the Secretary in accordance with regulation 101; or
(c) a police officer who, in the
course of
duty, is driving a probationary prohibited vehicle; or
(d) a person who is driving a probationary prohibited vehicle that is also a heavy vehicle if—
(i) that person does not hold a driver licence that authorises the holder to drive that motor vehicle; and
(ii) the person is the holder of a driver licence of another category; and
(iii) a person who holds an Australian driver licence which is appropriate for the category of vehicle that is being driven is sitting beside the driver and is supervising the driver; and
(iv) there is a driver under instruction plate affixed to, and facing out from, the front and rear of the vehicle.