Police driving licence seizures to be banned
published : 22 Aug 2019 at 08:40
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Post Reporters
Traffic police will not be able to seize driving licences of motorists breaking traffic laws after Sept 20, police say.
Originally, the law authorised traffic police to temporarily seize a driving licence when the driver was issued with a traffic ticket. In future they will no longer be able to seize the licence, though that is because a digital licence is now being introduced. Traffic police will also be able to issue tickets by mail.
Police can mail the ticket to registered car owners found involved in breaches of traffic regulations.
The car owner will be required to pay the fine, and evidence of the violation will also be sent along with the traffic ticket.
Another change allows drivers to carry a "digital driver's licence" instead of a physical one. A digital licence could be a photographic image or be drawn from the Department of Land Transport's app, "DLT QR Licence".
The system will also allow digital records of wrongdoings and will implement a point deduction system. Losing all 12 points will lead to licence suspension for 90 days, while three suspensions will lead to a one-year suspension.
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Vocabulary
- breach (noun): a failure to follow a law or rule - การละเมิดกฎหมาย, การละเมิดกฎข้อบังคับ
- deduction: the process of taking an amount of something, especially money, away from a total, in this case taxes; the amount that is taken away - การหักลบ
- evidence: facts statements or objects that help to prove whether or not someone has committed a crime - หลักฐาน
- fine: an amount of money that you have to pay because you have broken the law - ค่าปรับ
- licence: an official document that gives someone permission to do or use something - ใบอนุญาต
- memorandum: an informal legal agreement - ข้อตกลง
- physical: existing in the real world, rather than in someone's imagination - โดยพละของธรรมชาติ, แท้จริง
- seize: to take something using official power and force - จับกุม
- suspension: stopping for a period of time - การยกเลิกชั่วคราว, การระงับชั่วคราว
- violation: an action that is against a law, agreement, principle, etc. - การฝ่าฝืน
- wrongdoing: breaking the law or doing something "wrong" - กระทำผิดศีลธรรม, ละเมิดกฎหมาย
- Keywords
- licence
- traffic
- traffic police
- police
