Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts Section 48C(1) is
repealed and the following subsections are inserted instead —
“
(1) The Director
General may, subject to such conditions as the Director General sees fit to
impose, issue a permit authorizing a person who has attained the
prescribed age, to drive a motor vehicle of the class specified in the permit
in the course of driving instruction by —
(a) a
holder of a licence issued under the Motor Vehicle Drivers Instructors
Act 1963 ; or
(b) any
other person prescribed in the regulations.
(1a) The Director
General may, in a particular case, issue a permit under this section to a
person who has not attained the prescribed age if the denial of the permit
would, in the opinion of the Director General, occasion undue hardship or
inconvenience.
(1b) In
subsection (1) —
"prescribed age" means the age of 16 years or, in
relation to a particular description of motor vehicle, any other age
prescribed in the regulations for the purposes of this section.
”.