Labour Day double demerits
Double demerit points will apply across the Labour Day long weekend, from Friday 26 February 2021 to Monday 1 March 2021 inclusive.
During holiday periods and long weekends, the WA Police force apply double demerits to all of the following offences:
- Drink or drug driving
- Failing to wear a seatbelt and child restraint
- Running a red light
- Illegal use of a mobile phone while driving
- Speeding
- Driving a motor vehicle fitted with a device designed to evade detection by a speed camera (14 points during double demerits period)
- Drive a motor vehicle in a manner to evade detection by a speed camera (14 points during double demerits period)
Monetary penalties that accompany the above offences are not doubled during double demerit points periods.