New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROAD TRANSPORT ACT 2013 - SECT 61C

61C Use of digital driver licence

(1) The holder of a digital driver licence may use the digital driver licence by displaying it on a mobile phone or other electronic device in accordance with this section.

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, a person who displays a digital driver licence in accordance with this section for the purpose of satisfying a requirement under this Act, or another Act or law, to hold, produce or display, however described, a driver licence to another person is taken to have satisfied that requirement.

(4) Despite any other provision of this section, a person who displays or purports to display a digital driver licence is not required to give or hand over, to the person who is requiring the driver licence to be produced or handed over, the mobile phone or other electronic device on which the digital driver licence is displayed or purported to be displayed.

(5) A digital driver licence is not displayed for the purposes of this section if--

(a) the screen of the mobile phone or other electronic device on which it is purportedly displayed is unable to be read by the person to whom it is displayed due to cracking, dimming, dirt or any other fault, damage or obstruction, or

(b) the holder of the digital driver licence fails or refuses to comply with a reasonable request by the person to whom it is purported to be displayed to facilitate the reading, copying or scanning of the whole or any part of the digital driver licence, or

(c) the holder of the digital driver licence refuses to comply with a reasonable direction to refresh the display of the digital driver licence.

(6) The holder of a digital driver licence does not commit an offence under this or any other Act or law arising from the holder's use of a mobile phone or other electronic device for the purpose of displaying the holder's digital driver licence in response to a request to do so by a police officer or other person authorised to require the production of a driver licence.

Note 1 : Rules 299, 300 and 300- 1 of the Road Rules 2014 make provision with respect to the use of mobile phones and other electronic devices by the driver of a motor vehicle.

Note 2 : The Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2017 makes provision with respect to the use of mobile phones by certain licence holders when driving a motor vehicle.