Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If the number of
current demerit points recorded against a person in the demerit points
register reaches at least 12, the Director General is to give the person, in
accordance with section 104R, an excessive demerit points notice
stating —
(a) the
day on which that number of current demerit points was reached; and
(b) the
number of current demerit points reached on that day; and
(c) the
period of disqualification fixed under subsection (2); and
(d) the
day on which the period of disqualification will commence if the person
cannot, or for any other reason does not, make a section 104J election.
(2) The period of
disqualification to be stated in the notice is —
(a) for
less than 16 points, 3 months;
(b) for
at least 16 but less than 20 points, 4 months;
(c) for
at least 20 points, 5 months,
and the day on which
the period is stated to commence is to be the 28th day after the notice is
given or a later day.
(3) Whether or not the
person makes a section 104J election, demerit points recorded against the
person in the demerit points register on or before the day on which, according
to the notice, the stated number of demerit points was reached are cancelled.
(4) If the person
cannot, or for any other reason does not, make a section 104J election,
the person is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence
for the period of disqualification fixed under subsection (2).
(5) Nothing in this
section prevents the day on which the period of disqualification commences
from being postponed under section 104M.
(6) Regulations
referred to in section 104O(7) may provide for all or some of the demerit
points cancelled under subsection (3) to be again recorded against the
person.
[Section 104I inserted by No. 54 of 2006
s. 31.]