Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 150AA

150AA Regulating young drivers

(1) A regulation made under this part, to the extent it is about the management of young drivers, may provide for the following—

(a) standards about young driver skills and knowledge;

(b) the training of young drivers;

(c) the keeping and production of logbooks to record the driving experience of young drivers;

(d) the retention of the logbooks mentioned in paragraph (c) ;

(e) the testing and licensing of young drivers;

(f) rules about licences held by young drivers, including, in particular, the circumstances in which, and the reasons for which, they can be cancelled or suspended or conditions imposed on them;

(g) the granting of exemptions from conditions of licences;

(h) the passengers young drivers may carry in vehicles;

(i) the use, operation or holding of mobile phones and other electronic devices by, or the resting of mobile phones and other electronic devices on, persons in vehicles driven by young drivers;

(j) the vehicles that may and may not be driven by young drivers.

(2) The following is not unlawful discrimination on the basis of age for the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 —

(a) a provision of a regulation about the management of young drivers as mentioned in subsection (1) , that is declared under the regulation as a provision that is not unlawful discrimination on the basis of age for the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 ;

(b) the doing of an act that is necessary to comply with, or that is authorised by, a provision declared under paragraph (a) .

(3) In this section—

"young driver" means a driver under 25 years.