Loss Of License

[Ivan]

Open licence demerit points

If you hold a Queensland open licence and have at least seven demerit points recorded against your traffic history in a three-year period, you will be sent a courtesy letter advising you of this fact.

If you hold a Queensland open licence and you have 12 demerit points (or more) recorded against your traffic history in a three-year period, you will be sent an Accumulation of Demerit Points—Notice to Choose.

This notice will require you to choose one of the following options:

*having your licence suspended for a stated period

*agreeing to 'be of good behaviour' while driving for one year (known as a Good Driving Behaviour period).

You will be considered to have good driving behaviour after a year if no more than one demerit point is allocated to your traffic history during that year.

From here -> http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/Home/Licen...s/Open_licence/

According to that, it doesn't matter how many points you have. If you loose 12 in three years, your licence is a goner.

The Dept of Tran lady speaks the truth

Edited 18/10/08 04:57 AM by Ivan

[senna_T]

Dude, I reckon you should just take the 3 months or whatever it is. you get all your points back after the suspension, so in a way it could be a quicker way to get 12 points again!

Not to mention it is easier to build your engine when you can't drive your car anyway....

[tab]

And get that other poof that lives just up the road in his taxi-coloured phoon to drive you around. Win-win

[EZ2CME]

Dude, I reckon you should just take the 3 months or whatever it is. you get all your points back after the suspension, so in a way it could be a quicker way to get 12 points again!

Not to mention it is easier to build your engine when you can't drive your car anyway....

Good call, I think it may be the option I go with now that I've seen that from the Qld transport site. Thanks for that Ivan. I have the money at the moment to build the engine but I'm trying to be sensible and put that towards other things besides the car.

And get that other poof that lives just up the road in his taxi-coloured phoon to drive you around. Win-win

Good plan, no more designated driver for me for 3 months either.

[Butto]

Yeh I.B. is right.

You are never given any points to lose, the way it works is you are allowed to accumulate a certain amount of points over a period of time depending on what license you are onand once you accumulate a certain amount that's bye bye license.

And you might wanna check up on the whole P-plate points being taken off after a yr thing, I just cant see any state being esier on P - PLaters

[EZ2CME]

The Qld transport lady told me that I was right about the provisional license points, but as Ivan has pointed out from the website my license is a gonner now so either way doesn't really matter as I've lost it.

[Slymeat]

I would have to say taking this to court would be a massive waste of time. The commisioner of the RTA decides when you loose your licence, a magistrate can only make a recomendation which the RTA can ignore it is his/her sole discretion and no court in the land can overturn it, sad but true. Good luck with building the engine, although I think Senna might be wrong about getting your points back it will still take the entire 3 years for the points to drop off.

[tab]

I think there is a fair amount of myth floating around in regards to the whole demerit point system.

From what I understand the points never expire, you never "get them back" or anything like that. Suspended licenses come about when you accumulate a given amount within a certain time frame. In Qld (not sure about other states) this is four points within one year on a provisional licence, and 12 points within three years on an open licence.

You could for instance accumulate 30 points in ten years and never face a suspension provided you time it right...in fact my cousin avoided a license suspension by paying his fine on the last possible date, had he have paid it straight away the points would have been recorded and pushed him over the three year thing by a matter of days.

Please correct me if I'm wrong my learned traffic specialists!

[RAPHOON]

If its your first time, you will be able to opt for a 4 point licence for 1 year. Like going back on our "P"'s. At least that's how it used to be.

[Kimberley Scott]

Sorry to hear, at the farkers could be consistant and let you accumulate as many points as you desire, everything else is a revenue rasier so why not this?

Scotty