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ROAD TRAFFIC (AUTHORISATION TO DRIVE) ACT 2008 - SECT 18

18 .         Disqualification from holding provisional licence

        (1)         In this section —

        unlicensed person means a person —

            (a)         who does not hold a driver’s licence; and

            (b)         in respect of whom the regulations would require that if a driver’s licence were to be granted to the person, the licence would be a provisional licence.

        (2)         An unlicensed person is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence if the person is —

            (a)         convicted of an offence mentioned in section 16(1); or

            (b)         convicted of an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1974 section 49(1)(a); or

            (c)         disqualified by a court from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence.

        (3)         The period for which a person mentioned in subsection (2) is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence is whichever of the following periods that terminates later —

            (a)         the period for which the person is disqualified by the court;

            (b)         a period of 3 months from the date of the person’s conviction or, where the person is convicted on more than one occasion of an offence mentioned in section 16(1), from the date of the latest conviction.



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