New Zealand Legislation: Acts

29 Certain driver licences have no effect

• (1) A driver licence has no effect if—

  • (a) a person is disqualified from holding, or unqualified to hold, a driver licence:

  • (b) the licence is invalid or is issued invalidly:

  • (c) the licence is revoked, cancelled, superseded, or replaced:

  • (d) the licence is for the time being suspended under any Act.

  (2) An authority to drive vehicles of a specified class that is conferred by part of a driver licence or an endorsement on a driver licence has no effect if—

  • (a) the person who obtained the authority is not qualified to drive, or is disqualified from driving, vehicles of that class; or

  • (b) the relevant part of the licence or the endorsement is for the time being suspended, or has been revoked, under any Act.

  Section 29(1): substituted, on 10 May 2011, by section 13 of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).