South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (VEHICLE AND VESSEL OFFENCES) ACT 2005 (NO 81 OF 2005) - SECT 6

6—Amendment of section 13—Manslaughter

Section 13—after its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:

        (2)         If a court convicting a person of manslaughter is satisfied that the victim's death was caused by 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 10 years or such longer period as the court orders.

        (3)         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.