Western Australian Current Acts

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 64

64 .         Driving with blood alcohol content of or above 0.08

        (1)         A person who drives or attempts to drive a motor vehicle while having a blood alcohol content of or above 0.08 g of alcohol per 100 ml of blood commits an offence, and the offender may be arrested without warrant.

        (2)         If a court convicts a person of an offence against this section —

            (a)         the person is liable to a fine of not less than the minimum fine or more than the maximum fine in the Table to this subsection; and

            (b)         the court convicting the person must, in any event, order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for not less than the relevant minimum period of disqualification in the Table to this subsection.

Table

Blood alcohol content (g/100 ml)		First offence	Second offence	Subsequent offence
≥ 0.08 but < 0.09	Min: Max: Disq:	15 PU 45 PU 6 months	32 PU 45 PU 8 months	32 PU 45 PU 10 months
≥ 0.09 but < 0.11	Min: Max: Disq:	17 PU 45 PU 7 months	34 PU 45 PU 10 months	34 PU 45 PU 13 months
≥ 0.11 but < 0.13	Min: Max: Disq:	20 PU 45 PU 8 months	36 PU 60 PU 14 months	36 PU 60 PU 17 months
≥ 0.13	Min: Max: Disq:	23 PU 45 PU 9 months	48 PU 75 PU 18 months	48 PU 90 PU 30 months

        Note:         ≥ signifies of or above

                < signifies less than

                Disq signifies the minimum period of disqualification

                Max signifies the maximum fine

                Min signifies the minimum fine

        (2a)         For the purposes of the Table to subsection (2), an offence is a second or subsequent offence against this section irrespective of the blood alcohol content on the occasion of the commission of any previous offence against this section.

        (3)         For the purposes of subsection (2), where a person is convicted of an offence against this section any offence previously committed by the person against section 63, 64B(3), 67 or 67AD(4) or (6) must be taken into account and be deemed to have been an offence against this section (but not to the exclusion of any other previous offence against this section) in determining whether that first-mentioned offence is a first, second or subsequent offence.

        (4)         A person charged with an offence against this section may, instead of being convicted of that offence, be convicted of —

            (a)         an offence against section 64AA; or

            (b)         an offence against section 64A(1) or 64AAA(1) if, at the time of the alleged offence, the person was a person to whom section 64A(1) applied; or

            (c)         an offence against section 64A(4) or 64AAA(2) if, at the time of the alleged offence, the motor vehicle concerned was a motor vehicle to which section 64A(4) applied.

        [Section 64 amended: No. 71 of 1979 s. 9; No. 82 of 1982 s. 12; No. 11 of 1988 s. 24; No. 13 of 1992 s. 8; No. 50 of 1997 s. 6; No. 54 of 2006 s. 15 and 17(3) and (4); No. 39 of 2007 s. 6 and 32; No. 51 of 2010 s. 6; No. 14 of 2011 s. 6; No. 27 of 2020 s. 7.]