Experience requirements for lower class licences
61 Experience requirements for lower class licences
For section 56(2)(a), a person satisfies the experience requirements for a lower class licence if the person holds or has held, within the period of 5 years before the person applies for the lower class licence, a relevant driver licence that is of a higher class than the lower class licence.
For subsection (1), a relevant driver licence that is a non-Queensland driver licence is of a higher class than a lower class licence if the non-Queensland driver licence corresponds to a Queensland driver licence of a class that is higher than the class of the lower class licence.
Example—
A non-Queensland driver licence that corresponds to a class LR Queensland driver licence is of a higher class than a lower class licence that is a class C Queensland driver licence.
In this section—
relevant driver licence means—
a heavy vehicle class provisional licence, probationary licence or open licence; or
a non-Queensland driver licence that corresponds to a heavy vehicle class Queensland driver licence mentioned in paragraph (a).
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