South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (VEHICLE AND VESSEL OFFENCES) ACT 2005 (NO 81 OF 2005) - SECT 26

26—Insertion of section 169B

After section 169A insert:

169B—Effect of imprisonment on disqualification

        (1)         If, in sentencing a convicted person for an offence under this or any other Act, the court imposes a sentence of imprisonment (other than a suspended sentence) and orders that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for a specified period, the person will be taken to be so disqualified for a period commencing at the time the order is made and ending at a time calculated as if the specified period commenced—

            (a)         on the person's release from a period of imprisonment served by the person that consists of or includes a period attributable to the court's sentence; or

            (b)         if, on the person's release from such a period of imprisonment, the person would, apart from this subsection, already be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence or holds a driver's licence that is suspended—on the expiration of that period of disqualification or suspension.

        (2)         Subsection (1) applies despite the terms of the court's order and despite the fact that it will or might result in the convicted person being disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for a period exceeding the maximum period (if any) prescribed under this or another Act in relation to the relevant offence.