South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (VEHICLE AND VESSEL OFFENCES) ACT 2005 (NO 81 OF 2005) - SECT 12

12—Amendment of section 29—Acts endangering life or creating risk of serious harm

Section 29—after subsection (3) insert:

        (4)         If a court convicting a person of an offence against this section is satisfied that the act or omission constituting the offence was done or made by the convicted person in the course of the convicted person's use of a motor vehicle, the court must order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for 5 years or such longer period as the court orders.

        (5)         Where a convicted person is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence—

            (a)         the disqualification operates to cancel any driver's licence held by the convicted person as at the commencement of the period of disqualification; and

            (b)         the disqualification may not be reduced or mitigated in any way or be substituted by any other penalty or sentence.