Victorian Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (ROAD SAFETY, RAIL AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2017 (NO. 68 OF 2017) - SECT 42

After section 18A of the Principal Act insert —

        " 18B     Corporation may retain and check validity of licence documents

    (1)     For the purposes of this section, a licence document is any driver licence, learner permit or other document that purports to authorise the holder of the licence document to drive a motor vehicle on a highway whether the licence document was—

        (a)     issued by the Corporation; or

        (b)     issued in another State or a Territory or another country.

    (2)     The Corporation may retain any licence document for the purpose of checking its validity.

    (3)     If the Corporation retains the licence document of a person under subsection (2), the Corporation must—

        (a)     give the person a copy of the licence document that has been stamped by the Corporation and specifies the period (the effective period ) during which the copy of the licence document may be relied on as evidence that the person is authorised to drive a motor vehicle on a highway; and

        (b)     subject to section 18C, return the original of the licence document to the person before the expiry of the effective period.

    (4)     If, at any time during the effective period specified on the copy of a licence document provided to a person by the Corporation under subsection (3), the person is required under this Act to produce the person's driver licence document or learner permit document, the person meets that requirement by producing the copy of the licence document.

        18C     Corporation may confiscate and destroy licence document believed to be false, etc.

If the Corporation reasonably believes that a licence document retained under section 18B is false, fraudulent or counterfeit or has been improperly obtained, the Corporation may—

        (a)     confiscate the licence document; and

        (b)     destroy the licence document.".