Western Australian Current Regulations

ROAD TRAFFIC (AUTHORISATION TO DRIVE) REGULATIONS 2014 - REG 44

44 .         Minimum age for learner’s permit

        (1)         A person who has not reached 16 years of age cannot hold a learner’s permit unless —

            (a)         subregulation (2) applies; or

            (b)         under subregulation (3), the CEO waives the requirement to have reached that age.

        (2)         A person who has reached 15 years and 6 months of age may hold a learner’s permit authorising the person, while learning, to drive only a moped.

        (3)         The CEO may in a particular case waive the requirement to have reached 16 years of age if the CEO is satisfied that denial of the permit would occasion undue hardship.

        [Regulation 44 amended: Gazette 19 Oct 2018 p. 4142.]