(1) If the court makes a disqualification order it shall at the same time order that no new driving licence shall be issued for a period from six months to five years (ban). The court may order a permanent ban if there is reason to believe that the statutory maximum period will not suffice to avert the danger posed by the offender. If the offender has no driving licence only a ban shall be imposed.

(2) The court may exempt particular types of motor-vehicles from the ban if spe cial circumstances justify the assumption that the purpose of the measure will not be put at risk.

(3) The minimum ban shall be for a period of one year if during the last three years before the offence a ban had been ordered against the offender.

(4) If the offender’s driving licence had been provisionally seized because of the offence (section 111a of the Code of Criminal Procedure), the minimum ban shall be reduced by the time during which the provisional deprivation was in effect. In no case shall the ban be less than three months.

(5) The ban shall commence when the judgment becomes final. The time of a provisional deprivation ordered because of the offence shall be credited towards the period of the ban to the extent it has run following the date on which the judgment in those proceedings in which the factual findings underlying the measure could last have been examined was pronounced.

(6) For the purposes of subsections (4) and (5) above the provisional seizure of a driving licence or its seizure (section 94 of the Code of Criminal Procedure) shall be equivalent to a provisional disqualification.

(7) If there is reason to believe that the offender is no longer unfit to drive motor-vehicles the court may terminate the ban. This termination may not be ordered unless the ban has been in effect for three months, or a year in cases pursuant to subsection (3) above; subsection (5) 2nd sentence and subsection (6) above shall apply mutatis mutandis.