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ROAD SAFETY ACT 1986 - SECT 85ZA

Immediate disqualification where certain certificates of breath or blood alcohol concentration issued

    (1)     This section applies if a non-Victorian licence or permit holder or unlicensed driver is issued with a relevant breath or blood alcohol concentration certificate, in relation to an offence under section 49(1)(b), (bc), (f), (g) or (j).

    (2)     Any police officer, by written notice, may, at any time within the period of 12 months after the issue of the certificate, disqualify the non-Victorian licence or permit holder or unlicensed driver from obtaining a driver licence or learner permit.

    (3)     In this section—

"relevant breath or blood alcohol concentration certificate" means a certificate—

        (a)     issued to a person under section 55(4) or 57; and

        (b)     that states that the concentration of alcohol present in the breath or blood of the person as indicated by the analysis of the person's breath or blood sample is—

              (i)     0·10 grams or more per 210 litres of exhaled air or 100 millilitres of blood (as the case requires), if the person holds a full non-Victorian licence; or

              (ii)     0 07 grams or more per 210 litres of exhaled air or 100 millilitres of blood (as the case requires), if the person holds a non-Victorian learner permit or non‑Victorian probationary or provisional licence or is an unlicensed driver; or

              (iii)     the prescribed concentration of alcohol or more than the prescribed concentration of alcohol, if the person has, within 10 years before the commission of the alleged offence, been found guilty or convicted of an offence (other than a supervising driver offence) referred to in section 48(2)(a), (b), (c), (e) or (f).

S. 85ZB inserted by No. 30/2021 s. 64.



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