Thousands will lose drivers' licences...affected by delayed disqualifications.

Thousands will lose drivers' licences
Police Reporter Amy Noonan
From: The Advertiser
August 13, 2011


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A LAWYER will petition Road Safety Minister Tom Kenyon for drivers affected by delayed disqualifications.
Michael Woods & Co solicitor Damon Ind said the firm had been inundated by affected drivers only now receiving disqualification notices.
Thousands of people who applied to the Magistrates Court from July 2009 for fine payment extensions or part payments did not have their information and demerit points passed on to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The disqualification and warning letters were not processed and sent out until this week, with more expected in coming weeks.
About 8000 people will lose their licences and about 20,000 will receive warning letters about demerit points.
Mr Ind said the delay had huge consequences for some drivers who would lose licences.
"If it had been done in a timely way ... they would have served their disqualification periods and got on with their lives," Mr Ind said. "It's tragic, because for some people the ability to drive is their livelihood.
"There's been significant changes in lots of people's lives - the young person who is now an apprentice, people having children, people who might have moved to rural areas, people whose health may have changed."


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