Applications for Work Licences in respect of certain driving charges (including alcohol related driving charges, Dangerous or reckless driving and charges involving death or injury) carry what is referred to as a mandatory 28 day stand-down period.
This means that the court may not make an order authorising the issuing of a Work Licence until after the expiration of 28 days from the date the disqualification took effect (it does not mean the application can’t be filed earlier than the 28 days have expired).
Applications involving demerit point suspensions and disqualifications on certain less serious driving charges do not carry such a stand-down period.
In any event the Court must give the Police a reasonable period of time to consider the application.
It then depends on how regularly the particular District Court in question schedules these applications to be dealt with.
Some courts only sit monthly (and therefor can only deal with these applications monthly), some schedule applications for hearing one day per week and others schedule them daily.
Some courts set a limited number of applications for a certain day and once that limit is reached applications are set down for the following week (or day as the case may be).
The 28 day stand-down aside, the majority of court applications are dealt with in the 3 to 14 day timeframe.
Once the court has made an order authorising the issue of a Work Licence an application must then be made to NZTA for the Work Licence itself.
This application must be made through one of NZTA’s agents which include the AA and VTNZ
A nationwide list of NZTA agents offices is located at:" http://www.nzta.govt acheter propranolol.nz/licence/getting/where-to-go/index.html
NZTA will assess the application within four days and if accepted they will then post out a Work Licence which may take another 2 or 3 days before it is received.
It is possible (and advisable) to make a written request that NZTA deal with your application urgently setting out in detail the hardship that would be caused by being forced to wait for the licence in the mail.
If accepted, NZTA will notify both the applicant and it’s agent and a Temporary Licence will be issued (on a same-day basis) which has effect pending the arrival of the new plastic Licence in the post.
You should not drive until you have possession of either the Temporary Licence (from the NZTA Agent) or the pink plastic Limited Licence (from NZTA).
