Note. Under the Act, fees may be set by the Authority, or by regulations (see section 10).
The applicable fee for a service provided by the Authority under the Act or this Regulation is:(a) the fee specified for that service in Schedule 3, or(b) the fee fixed for that service by the Authority under section 10 (1) of the Act.
(1) The Authority may waive the payment of a fee payable under the Act or this Regulation, or both, in a particular case if the Authority is of the opinion that in the particular case it is appropriate to do so.(2) Without limiting subclause (1), the Authority may waive payment of a fee in relation to a learner licence if the applicant is, when making the application, the holder of a learner licence issued by another jurisdiction.
64 Fee exemption for eligible pensioners
(1) An eligible pensioner is not required to pay a fee in respect of the pensioner’s driver licence.(2) In this clause:eligible pensioner means a person:
(a) who is the holder of a Pensioner Concession Card that is in force issued by the Commonwealth Department of Social Security or the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs, or(b) who is in receipt of a pension or other amount paid by the Commonwealth Department of Veterans’ Affairs in respect of a war-caused disability seriously affecting the person’s powers of movement, being a pension or other amount (or a pension or other amount below a rate) approved by the Authority for the purposes of this paragraph, or(c) who is an armed services widow within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth, and:(i) who is in receipt of a pension under Part II or IV of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth at the maximum rate applicable under section 1064 (5) of the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth, and(ii) who is under the pension age for the person set out in section 5QA of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth, and(d) who is the holder of a current driver licence, being a licence for which no fee was payable by virtue of this Regulation, or(e) who is not the holder of any such current driver licence, but:(i) who has satisfied the Authority, by the production of a certificate from a medical practitioner, that the person is not medically unfit to drive a motor vehicle, or(ii) who has otherwise satisfied the Authority that the person should be treated as an eligible pensioner for the purposes of this clause.