78APermit to drive—recently expired driver licence#

1. (1)This section applies if a police officer serves an infringement notice on a person with a recently expired licence for a contravention of section 78(1).
2. (2)The police officer may issue a permit authorising the person to drive to a stated place.
3. (3)The permit must—
4. (a)be in the approved form; and
5. (b)state the number of the infringement notice; and
6. (c)state the term, not longer than 24 hours, for which it is issued; and
7. (d)state the conditions, if any, on which it is issued.
8. (4)If the permit is issued on a condition, the permit is cancelled if the condition is contravened.
9. (5)To remove any doubt, it is declared that a police officer issuing a permit under subsection (2) does not contravene section 78(5).
10. (6)In this section—

recently expired licence

in relation to a person's contravention of section 78(1), means—

(a)

a driver licence that has been expired for no more than 1 year before the contravention; or

(b)

a non-Queensland driver licence if, within the 1 year before the contravention, the authority to drive or learn to drive on a Queensland road under the licence has been withdrawn, other than because—

(i)

the person was granted a Queensland driver licence; or

(ii)

the chief executive reasonably believed the person had a mental or physical incapacity that was likely to adversely affect the person's ability to drive or learn to drive safely.