Meaning of “driving instructor”
4 Meaning of “driving instructor”
For the purposes of this Act, a driving instructor is a person—
who—
instructs another person for the purpose of teaching that other person to drive a motor vehicle, or
tests or assesses another person for the purpose of enabling that other person to obtain a driver licence or have it varied, and
receives a monetary or other reward for so teaching, testing or assessing (whether from the person being instructed, tested or assessed or otherwise).
Subject to the regulations, any other reference in this Act (including subsections (2) and (3)) to a driving instructor or other person giving driving instructions to another person includes a reference to testing or assessing another person for the purpose of enabling that other person to obtain a driver licence or have it varied.
It does not matter whether the driving instructor gives instructions on the instructor’s own account or in conjunction with any other person or as the agent or employee of any other person.
However, the regulations may provide that certain persons or classes of persons are not driving instructors for the purposes of this Act.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
, the regulations may provide
). Made under this Act:
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