s.37Applying for a driver's licence for the first time
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Section 37Part 3 — Licensing of Drivers of Vehicles

Applying for a driver's licence for the first time

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No person may be granted a driver's licence unless that person has first passed the prescribed written test and prescribed road test, in that order, for vehicles of that group.
The content of driving tests and the requirements for passing them shall be prescribed in regulations.
Driving tests shall be carried out by a driving examiner appointed under section 3.
A person who wishes to obtain a driver's licence may apply in the prescribed form to the Director to undergo a written test and road test, but no person shall take the road test without first holding a learner's licence.
A learner driver who has been declared by a driving examiner to have passed the written test and road test shall surrender to the Director that person's learner's licence and receive in exchange a certificate of competence, in the prescribed form, pending issue of the driver's licence.
The certificate of competence, for the day when it is issued and three days following its issue, exempts the person to whom it is issued from holding a driver's licence for the purpose of section 26(c).

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certificate of competence

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