Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts After section 42A the
following section is inserted —
“
42B. Additional matters
relating to identity
(1) The Director
General cannot issue or renew a driver’s licence until the applicant has
provided, in support of the application, such evidence as is required by the
regulations to establish the identity and residential address in this State of
the applicant.
(2) Except as
prescribed in the regulations, the Director General cannot issue or renew a
driver’s licence unless the applicant has, at the time of the
application or before, provided the Director General with —
(a) a
photograph for use on the driver’s licence, taken within 5 years of the
application; and
(b) a
signature for use on the driver’s licence, made within 5 years of the
application.
(3) The photograph and
signature are to be provided in a manner and form approved by the Director
General.
(4) The Director
General is to ensure that any photograph or signature provided under this
section is destroyed if it, or a copy of it, has not been used on a
driver’s licence in the preceding 5 years.
(5) A person who,
other than for the purposes of this Part, possesses a photograph or signature
provided under this section that is not on a driver’s licence commits an
offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(6) A person employed
or engaged in connection with any aspect of the production of driver’s
licences or otherwise concerned in the administration of this Part, who,
otherwise than in the administration of this Part —
(a)
reproduces, by any means, a photograph or signature that appears, or is to
appear, in a licence; or
(b)
causes or permits another person to do so,
commits an offence.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(7) In this
section —
"destroyed" includes damaged so as to be unusable;
"photograph" includes a negative or an image
stored electronically.
”.