Road Traffic Act · s 47

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s 47Issue of new licence free from endorsement

Where a person in respect of whom an order has been made under this Part requiring the endorsement of any driving licence held by him has during a continuous period of 3 years or upwards since the order was made had no such order made against him, he shall be entitled, on application and subject to payment of the prescribed fee and surrender of any subsisting licence, at any time to have issued to him a new licence free from endorsement:

Provided that, in reckoning the period of 3 years, any period during which the person was by virtue of the order disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence, shall be excluded.