A new initiative by the New South Wales Government means that unrestricted and professional driver licence holders who incur no further demerit points for a year from 17 January 2023 will ‘get back' one point.
The scheme was scheduled to commence on 17 July of this year, but the Minns government has decided to start the click ticking 6 months earlier, with a view to rewarding safe driver behaviour.
It is estimated the scheme will apply to 1.7 million drivers and hoped it will encourage drivers to comply with the road rules in our state.
The scheme is being managed by Transport for NSW which has taken a ‘snapshot' of the demerit point register as of 17 January 2023, and says that if these drivers continue to remain ‘offence-free' for a full 12 month period, then one demerit point will be removed from their record.
