Road Traffic Act · s 47A

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47A.
Power of Director to suspend or revoke driving licence
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Director may suspend or revoke a driving licence of a person for a period not exceeding 3 years if —
(a) the person’s record (as kept by the Director) as a driver of motor vehicles or his conduct or habits as such driver establishes that it would not be in the interest of public safety for him to hold a driving licence; or

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(b) that such person in not competent to drive a motor vehicle.
(2) For the purpose of establishing that it would not be in the interest of public safety for a person to hold a driving licence or that such person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle, the Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations establishing a system of awarding points against a person for the commission of an offence against this Act or any regulations made thereunder.
(3) The regulations made under subsection (2) shall specify the maximum number of points to be awarded against a person before it may be established that it would not be in the interests of public safety for him to hold a driving licence or that such person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle.
(4) The power conferred upon the Director by this section to suspend or revoke the driving licence of a person may be exercised at such time after the maximum number of points, referred to in subsection (3), has been awarded against such person as the Director thinks fit.
(5) Where the points awarded against a person under the regulations made under subsection (2) reach 50 per cent of the maximum number at which the Director may suspend or revoke the driving licence of such person under this section, the Director shall give notice thereof in writing to the person.
(6) Where a person is disqualified by an order of a court from holding or obtaining a driving licence for such period of time as may be specified in the order, every point awarded against him under the regulations made under subsection (2) shall thereupon be cancelled after 24 months with clean driving records.
(7) Where a holder of a driving licence commits on a single occasion more than one offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder, points shall be awarded against him only for the offence committed by him and in respect of which the largest number of points may be awarded against a person.
(8) In addition to the power conferred on the Director by subsection (1), if a person who holds a driving licence —

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(a) fails to comply with any process of court issued against him in respect of any offence committed by him under this Act, any regulations made thereunder or any written law specified in
Schedule 3; or
(b) is arrested under a warrant of court in connection with an offence against this Act, any regulations made thereunder or any written law specified in Schedule 3 and the offence has not been tried and determined by the court, the Director may, as he thinks fit, suspend or revoke the driving licence held by that person until he is satisfied that that person has complied with the process of court referred to in paragraph (a) or until the offence referred to in paragraph (b) has been tried and determined by the court, as the case may be.

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s 47APower of Director to suspend or revoke driving licence

(1)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the Director may suspend or revoke a driving licence of a person for a period not exceeding 3 years if —

(a)

the person’s record (as kept by the Director) as a driver of motor vehicles or his conduct or habits as such driver establishes that it would not be in the interest of public safety for him to hold a driving licence; or

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(b)

that such person in not competent to drive a motor vehicle.

(2)

For the purpose of establishing that it would not be in the interest of public safety for a person to hold a driving licence or that such person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle, the Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make regulations establishing a system of awarding points against a person for the commission of an offence against this Act or any regulations made thereunder.

(3)

The regulations made under subsection (2) shall specify the maximum number of points to be awarded against a person before it may be established that it would not be in the interests of public safety for him to hold a driving licence or that such person is not competent to drive a motor vehicle.

(4)

The power conferred upon the Director by this section to suspend or revoke the driving licence of a person may be exercised at such time after the maximum number of points, referred to in subsection (3), has been awarded against such person as the Director thinks fit.

(5)

Where the points awarded against a person under the regulations made under subsection (2) reach 50 per cent of the maximum number at which the Director may suspend or revoke the driving licence of such person under this section, the Director shall give notice thereof in writing to the person.

(6)

Where a person is disqualified by an order of a court from holding or obtaining a driving licence for such period of time as may be specified in the order, every point awarded against him under the regulations made under subsection (2) shall thereupon be cancelled after 24 months with clean driving records.

(7)

Where a holder of a driving licence commits on a single occasion more than one offence under this Act or any regulations made thereunder, points shall be awarded against him only for the offence committed by him and in respect of which the largest number of points may be awarded against a person.

(8)

In addition to the power conferred on the Director by subsection (1), if a person who holds a driving licence —

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(a)

fails to comply with any process of court issued against him in respect of any offence committed by him under this Act, any regulations made thereunder or any written law specified in

Schedule 3; or

(b)

is arrested under a warrant of court in connection with an offence against this Act, any regulations made thereunder or any written law specified in Schedule 3 and the offence has not been tried and determined by the court, the Director may, as he thinks fit, suspend or revoke the driving licence held by that person until he is satisfied that that person has complied with the process of court referred to in paragraph (a) or until the offence referred to in paragraph (b) has been tried and determined by the court, as the case may be.