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http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15670814%5E1702,00.html
P-PLATERS will have to pay extra to take advantage of exemptions allowing them to drive high-powered vehicles on New South Wales roads.
From July 11, most P1 and P2 drivers will be banned from driving cars with eight or more cylinders or vehicles with performance modified, turbo-charged or super-charged engines.
The legislation, announced by the NSW Government earlier this month, includes exemptions for P-platers driving high-powered vehicles for employment purposes and to some P-platers in remote and regional areas.
But a NSW parliamentary inquiry into road safety today was told that P-platers would have to pay a $23 application fee before they could take advantage of the exemptions.
P-plate drivers would also have to make a separate application – and pay an additional $23 – for every high-powered vehicle they were eligible to drive, the inquiry was told.
Staysafe Committee chairman Paul Gibson today described the exemption fee as "outrageous".
"This is just another tax, another impost of families," he told the inquiry.
However, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) director of road safety, Michael Bushby, said the fees were necessary to cover processing costs.
"You're calling it a tax, I'm calling it an administrative charge," he said.
Mr Bushby said P-platers would be required to make separate applications to make the laws "as definitive as possible".
"We don't see that as outrageous," he said.
"If you have an exemption to drive during work hours for a particular company because they have a V8, we don't believe that should then exempt you so that you can get in your mate's V8 on Friday night and drive it when you go out with your friends."
Mr Bushby said if cars were sold and replaced with another high-powered vehicle, another exemption application and fee would be required.
P-platers would also need to carry the RTA exemption papers with them when driving high-powered vehicles, in addition to their driver's licence, he said.
According to the RTA, a 17-year-old P1 licence-holder is four times more likely than the average driver to be involved in a fatal crash.
Also from the RTA
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/gettingalicence/car/p1p2_conditions.html?hhid=1
cheers
Scott
P-PLATERS will have to pay extra to take advantage of exemptions allowing them to drive high-powered vehicles on New South Wales roads.
From July 11, most P1 and P2 drivers will be banned from driving cars with eight or more cylinders or vehicles with performance modified, turbo-charged or super-charged engines.
The legislation, announced by the NSW Government earlier this month, includes exemptions for P-platers driving high-powered vehicles for employment purposes and to some P-platers in remote and regional areas.
But a NSW parliamentary inquiry into road safety today was told that P-platers would have to pay a $23 application fee before they could take advantage of the exemptions.
P-plate drivers would also have to make a separate application – and pay an additional $23 – for every high-powered vehicle they were eligible to drive, the inquiry was told.
Staysafe Committee chairman Paul Gibson today described the exemption fee as "outrageous".
"This is just another tax, another impost of families," he told the inquiry.
However, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) director of road safety, Michael Bushby, said the fees were necessary to cover processing costs.
"You're calling it a tax, I'm calling it an administrative charge," he said.
Mr Bushby said P-platers would be required to make separate applications to make the laws "as definitive as possible".
"We don't see that as outrageous," he said.
"If you have an exemption to drive during work hours for a particular company because they have a V8, we don't believe that should then exempt you so that you can get in your mate's V8 on Friday night and drive it when you go out with your friends."
Mr Bushby said if cars were sold and replaced with another high-powered vehicle, another exemption application and fee would be required.
P-platers would also need to carry the RTA exemption papers with them when driving high-powered vehicles, in addition to their driver's licence, he said.
According to the RTA, a 17-year-old P1 licence-holder is four times more likely than the average driver to be involved in a fatal crash.
Also from the RTA
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/gettingalicence/car/p1p2_conditions.html?hhid=1
cheers
Scott
