Section 27 — ROAD TRANSPORT ACT 1987

(2)

Subject to this Part as to tests of competence to drive and as to the physical fitness of applicants for driving licences, the Director shall, except in the case of an applicant who is disqualified by reason of age or otherwise as hereinafter mentioned, on payment of the prescribed fee, grant a driving licence to any person who applies for it in accordance with this Act.

(3)

A driving licence may authorize the holder thereof to drive such class or classes, or such type or types within any class or classes of motor vehicle, as the Director General or Director may specify therein.

(4)

Where under this Part the applicant is subject to any restriction with respect to the driving of any class of motor vehicle, the extent of the restriction shall be specified in the prescribed manner on the driving licence.

(5)

Subject to this Act with respect to learners’ driving licences, a driving licence shall, unless previously revoked or surrendered, remain in force for such period of not less than twelve months from the date on which it is granted.

(6)

A person shall, subject to any rules under this Act, be disqualified from obtaining a driving licence—

(a)

while another driving licence granted to him in Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore is in force, whether such licence is suspended or not;

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(b)

if he is, by conviction under this Part or by an order of a court in Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore, disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence;

(c)

for a period of twelve months from the date of revocation of the driving licence under section 35, 35A, 41, 42, 43,

44, 45, 45A, 45B or 45C.

(7)

In any proceedings, the fact that a driving licence has been granted to a person shall be evidence that that person for the purpose of obtaining that driving licence made a declaration that he was not disqualified from holding or obtaining the driving licence.

(8)

If any person is aggrieved by the refusal of a Director to grant a driving licence, or by the revocation of a driving licence under subsection 30(4) he may, after giving the Director fourteen days notice of his intention so to do, appeal to the Minister, and on any such appeal the Minister may make such order as he thinks fit and any order so made shall be binding on the Director.

Register of holders of driving licence