Disqualification For Life Explained
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, January 28. In sentences for driving offences, disqualification for life meant disqualification from driving for the rest of one’s fife, said an officer of the Transport Department today.
He was explaining a case at Christchurch this week in which a defendant was sentenced to three months in prison, fined £lOO, and disqualified for life for the offence of driving while disqualified. The same defendant had thrice previously been disqualified for life. The Transport Department officer said those disqualified from driving for any period
could apply to a court tor reinstatement ot their licence. The court would then judge the issue on its legal merit*. Otherwise, however, disqualification for life meant disqualification until one died. There were obvious difficulties, however, in physically preventing a person from driving without continuously imprisoning him. Furthermore, traffic law required that a person convicted of driving while being disqualified be disqualified afresh for at least a further year. In the case quoted, the Court had obviously derided that renewed disqualification for life was the only suitable way to meet the case.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 14
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