Clause 23

in subsection (9), replace “, unless the court for special reasons thinks fit to not order or to order a shorter period of disqualification, order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for a period that is equal to or longer than 12 months starting on the date of the person’s conviction or, if the person is sentenced to imprisonment, on the date of the person’s release from prison” with “order that the person be disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for a disqualification period that is equal to or longer than 12 months, unless the court for special reasons thinks fit to not so order, or to order a shorter disqualification period”; and

after subsection (9), insert —“(10) In this section, “disqualification period”, for an offender convicted of an offence (called in this subsection the relevant offence) under subsection (7), means the period for which the offender is disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence because of that conviction for the relevant offence, starting on the later of the following dates:

the date of the offender’s conviction for the relevant offence;

the date the offender is released from prison and is no longer serving any sentence of imprisonment, if the offender is or was sentenced to imprisonment (whether for the relevant offence or any other offence) before or at the same hearing where the offender is sentenced for the relevant offence.”.