FAQs

A proposed Graduated Licencing System for motorcyclists has been developed to reduce and manage the risk of crashes among novice motorcycle riders.

The Graduated Licencing System for motorcyclists is also intended to promote better road safety outcomes, including reducing the rate of fatality and serious injury, for a vulnerable cohort of road users.

• Two licence tenure period pathways at the learner and provisional rider licences stages;
• Licence tenure period concessions for those applicants who already hold a provisional C Class (car) licence (at a minimum);
• Lights on at all times for both learner and provisional rider licence holders;
• No towing for learner rider licence holders;
• Speed restriction of 100km/h for learner rider licence holders and 110km/h for provisional rider licence holders;
• Prohibition for learner rider licence holders and provisional rider licence holders for first 12 months of provisional period, from carrying a pillion passenger; 
• An automatic transmission restriction if assessed on an automatic motorcycle; 
• The inclusion of a mandatory training regime; and
• The requirement for a person to hold a motorcycles licence in order to ride a moped in the Northern Territory.

The Austroads discussion paper identifies that there is no strong evidence to support that restricting novice riders or drivers to speed limits below that for other road users reduces crashes.

It further identifies that there is existing evidence which suggests that crash risk for novice riders and other road users increases when there is a greater difference between individual vehicle speeds and the flow speed of the traffic.

• Motorcycling Australia Northern Territory 
• Rider Awareness NT 
• Motorcycle rider trainers
• Motorcycle dealers and associations/clubs   
• General public

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