43. Regulations classifying vehicles, drivers, etc.
(1) The Governor may make regulations ¾
(a) classifying motor vehicles for the purposes of this Part;
(aa) excluding from the authority given by a licence the authority to drive for a purpose or in a manner set out in the regulations unless the licence is expressly endorsed to confer that authority, whether by reference to classes of endorsement described in the regulations or otherwise;
(ab) prescribing classes of conditions or limitations to which a licence may be made subject by endorsing the licence with a reference to that class instead of setting out the conditions or limitations in full;
(b) prescribing the minimum ages, subject to section 42, of persons ¾
(i) to whom a driver's licence or permit appropriate to a particular description of motor vehicle may be issued; or
(ii) whose driver's licences may be endorsed under paragraph (aa);
(c) requiring that an applicant for a driver's licence or permit for specified classes of motor vehicle be the holder for a prescribed period of a driver's licence for such other class or classes of motor vehicle as is or are, respectively, specified in the regulations;
(d) providing for transitional provisions in relation to the issue of drivers' licences where the Director General has approved a new form of licence under section 42A, including provision for the surrender of existing licences and the issue of licences in a new form in place of existing licences ; and
(e) providing for what is to be authorized by a licence held by a person who, before an amendment to the regulations, held a licence that operated by reference to a vehicle classification that no longer exists and, where anything that was formerly authorized by the licence ceases to be authorized, making provision to facilitate the obtaining by the person of a licence that authorizes that thing.
[(2) repealed]
[Section 43 amended by No. 89 of 1978 s.8; No. 11 of 1988 s.6; No. 57 of 1988 s.6; No. 76 of 1996 s.20(3); No. 39 of 2000 s.21.]