Page 173 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 12 February 2020
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… why haven’t you informed them of these changes, and is it appropriate that they are first notified of this by police officers when on the roads?
I can inform the Assembly that provisional drivers who were issued with their licence prior to the changes do not have to change their P plates. It has been recommended that those who are under the old scheme transition to green P plates to distinguish themselves from new red P-plate conditions.
A two-stage provisional licence scheme was introduced on 1 January. P1 drivers—the first stage—must display red P plates and are subject to late-night passenger restrictions, and P2 drivers must display green P plates. Information provided on the JACS website clearly states that the change is advisory. If police are informing people roadside, it would be in an advisory manner.
Miss Burch also asked me how many incorrect logbooks were already in circulation. I am advised by Access Canberra that 341 logbooks were distributed to learners with the error in them between 1 January and 14 January 2020. From that date a sticker with the missing competency was added to the logbooks which contained the error until a next-version logbook was printed and distributed to Access Canberra service centres on 28 January 2020. Providing a sticker removed the need to destroy printed logbooks that were otherwise useful.
I can also inform the Assembly that Access Canberra was notified of the missing competency on 9 January. The next day they emailed all ACT-accredited driving instructors that they may come across new logbooks missing the competency. The accredited driving instructors were informed that until the issue was rectified they could add information in handwriting with their stamp at the bottom of the page—page 36—and they were also asked to reassure students that this evidence would be accepted when students presented their logbooks.
Mrs Dunne asked me why, in the driver competency section of the new logbook, there was no place to mark if the competency was achieved in a manual or an automatic vehicle. I am advised that the current version of the logbook includes a space for recording whether a competency was completed in an automatic or manual vehicle. The certificate of competency issued by a driving instructor once a person has successfully completed all of the competencies and final assessment states whether the final drive was completed in a manual or automatic vehicle. This certificate must be presented to Access Canberra when a person applies for their provisional licence.
Miss C Burch: Madam Speaker, with your indulgence, may I seek further clarification from the minister on that response?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is unusual. Perhaps you can write to him with a QoN.
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Order to table
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.14): I seek leave to move the motion circulated in my name in relation to the release of documents under standing order 213A.
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