DRIVERS’ LICENCES
QUESTION OP CANCELLATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 15. The Attorney-General (Mr T. C. Webb) said yesterday that he proposed, in the meantime, to be very sparing indeed in recommendations for the remission of penalty in cases where motor drivers’ licences had been cancelled. He regarded this form of penalty as a most salutary check and, in some cases, the only effective check on a class of offence that had assumed serious proportions. The Minister said he was looking into the question of conferring on the Courts’ power to review, after the expiration of a period of, say, six months, decisions cancelling motor drivers’ licences. It would take a very strong case indeed to induce him to make a favourable recommendation for the restoration of a motor driver’s licence within six months of cancellation. The Minister said that after a period of six months had elapsed he might be disposed to recommend restoration where grave personal hardship was involved, and where he was satisfied that the offender had learned his lesson.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 106, 17 February 1950, Page 2
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171DRIVERS’ LICENCES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 106, 17 February 1950, Page 2
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