Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 29

29 Granting, renewing or refusing driver authorisation

(1) A regulation may make provision about granting, renewing, or refusing to grant or renew, driver authorisation.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may authorise the chief executive—

(a) to impose a condition when granting driver authorisation to a person or renewing a person’s driver authorisation; or

(b) to refuse to grant driver authorisation to a person or to renew the person’s driver authorisation if the person—

(i) has been convicted of a category C driver disqualifying offence; or

(ii) has been charged with a driver disqualifying offence and the charge has not been finally disposed of.

(3) Also, without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may provide for the following—

(a) an authorising document;

(b) an authorising document to be in the form of a card or something similar approved by the chief executive and on which information may be stored electronically;

(c) a PIN to be used by the holder of driver authorisation as a security measure to protect information stored electronically on an authorising document.

(4) Further, without limiting subsections (1) to (3) , a regulation may provide that—

(a) an authorising document may include on it information about—

(i) the kinds of public passenger services for which the holder of the authorisation is an authorised driver; or

(ii) another transport authority held by the person under a prescribed transport Act, if allowed under that Act; or

(b) information about driver authorisation may be included on another transport authority.

Note—

See also the Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994 , section 36G for smartcard transport authorities.

(5) In this section—

"prescribed transport Act" means—

(a) the Tow Truck Act 2023 ; or

(b) the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 .

"transport authority" means—

(a) a driver accreditation or an assistant accreditation under the Tow Truck Act 2023 ; or

(b) a prescribed authority (other than a Queensland driver licence) under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 .