A person who incurs any of the offences below (or their equivalent interstate), will have the appropriate demerit points allocated to their driver licence:
|
Demerit Point Offences |
No. of Points |
- Drivers subject to zero BAC# with a BAC of between 0.00% and .05%
- Drivers subject to .05% BAC with a BAC of .05% but less than .07%
- Driving under the influence of illicit drugs
|
10 |
- Exceed speed limit by 45km/h or more*
|
8 |
- Exceed speed limit by 35km/h or more but less than 45km/h*
|
6 |
- Exceed speed limit by 25km/h or more but less than 35km/h*
- Rail level crossing offence
|
4 |
- Exceed speed limit by 10km/h or more but less than 25km/h*
- Disobey traffic lights, signs or police directing traffic
- Fail to give way or stop
- Drive without wearing a helmet (motorcycle), seat belt, or a properly adjusted and fastened seat belt, or with an unrestrained passenger under 16
- Drive on wrong side of double lines, or divided highway
- Risk colliding with alighting, boarding or waiting tram passengers
- Driving contrary to a major defect notice
- Careless driving
- Using a mobile phone illegally while driving
- Probationary driver who drives a high powered vehicle on a road
- Driving with an obscured or improperly displayed number plate
- Failure to display P plates
|
3 |
- Improper overtaking or passing
- Turn or stop without signalling
- Turn improperly
- Fail to keep left
|
2 |
- Exceed speed limit by less than 10km/h*
- Driving contrary to a minor defect notice
- Fail to dip headlights
- Driving at night without headlights and tail lights on
- Follow too closely
|
1 |
#BAC = Blood Alcohol Content
*Note - Some speeding offences also result in a licence suspension.