How Do Demerit Points Work in NSW?

OzyBe on 28/02/2024 - 17:41
Last edited 28/02/2024 - 21:05 by 1 other user

In the last 12 months I remember hearing on the news that safe drivers will be issued with bonus "merit' points for safe driving.

I logged in via the Service NSW site, to see if I had been awarded any of these points (I had not).

Anyone hear what is happening with this? I know I didn't dream it :)

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Comments

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 28/02/2024 - 17:45
    +1

    What like this?

    https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/demerit-point-scheme-t…

    Says safe drivers can have a point scrubbed in 1 year of good behaviour rather than 3 years

    • JimmyF on 28/02/2024 - 22:25
      -2

      Says safe drivers can have a point scrubbed in 1 year of good behaviour rather than 3 years

      Whats the point of this program? The point system was to get bad drivers off the road. So all this does is reward bad drivers by making the points disappear faster so they can continue being a bad driver🤦

  • avoidfullprice on 28/02/2024 - 18:04
    +3

    I logged in via the Service NSW site, to see if I had been awarded any of these points (I had not).

    demerit points - if you are good, you want less of. You don’t want to be “awarded” for being good. No such thing as merit points, just reducing the demerits

  • BOGOF on 28/02/2024 - 18:12
    +2

    Like a social credit system? (shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì)

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 28/02/2024 - 18:19

      Ccp case officer: nice

      • Yummy on 28/02/2024 - 18:40
        +1

        Ccp case officer: nice detected.

      • BOGOF on 28/02/2024 - 18:49

        Slow internet & travel ban for you!

    • afoveht on 28/02/2024 - 19:15

      Well demerit points as they are already are that.

  • deme on 28/02/2024 - 18:43
    +3

    In the last 12 months I remember hearing on the news that safe drivers will be issued with bonus "merit' points for safe driving

    We seriously need to better fund our public school system

      • deme on 28/02/2024 - 18:46
        +1

        Yeah that's brilliant let's privatise education and health care too! Go full USA we #1

      • Nillionaire on 29/02/2024 - 08:09
        +1

        Yikes jv

  • mskeggs on 28/02/2024 - 18:47
    +1

    If you got the bonus point it will be visible in the service NSW app in April

  • GordonD on 28/02/2024 - 18:49
    +1

    If you don't commit any more offences, they'll take one off the number of demerit points you have rather than requiring it to expire after 3 years.

    So they aren't rewarding safe drivers, ones who don't have any demerit points, they are rewarding unsafe drivers, ones who do have demerit points. They're just not rewarding ones who are really unsafe, the ones who not only have demerit points, they've added more.

    • pegaxs on 28/02/2024 - 22:31

      Came here to say something similar to this… they are rewarding bad drivers. Good drivers have no need for “extra” demerit point space if they don’t even use any of the 12 or 13 they are already allocated.

      But! In saying that, if you are a safe driver, when you go to get your license renewed, if you have had no offended or demerit points in the last 10 years, the cost of your renewal is halved. So good drivers do receive a reward.

      • kerfuffle on 28/02/2024 - 22:35

        if you have had no offended or demerit points in the last 10 years, the cost of your renewal is halved

        Last five years, and this is no longer a thing as of February 18.

  • AndyC1 on 28/02/2024 - 19:39

    OP did not indicate when and how many point lost for breaking the law.

    • umyeahokay on 29/02/2024 - 07:20

      They're not required to divulge their driving history to you, Mr GTS.

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