NSW Nationals MP Adam Marshall has been disqualified from driving after he pleaded guilty to drink driving.
The MP was pulled over in Glen Innes in NSW's north late last month and was later charged with mid-range drink driving.
He pleaded guilty at the town's local court on Tuesday, where he was fined $2000 and disqualified from driving for nine months.
Outside court, Marshall said he was a "a bloody idiot for doing the wrong thing".
"I've been more than willing since I committed the offence to accept the punishment," he told the ABC.
After Marshall was caught last month, Nationals leader Andrew Stoner said he had expressed "disappointment" in the MP's actions.
Mr Stoner said Marshall had resigned as temporary Speaker and Deputy Chair of the State and Regional Development Committee.
Marshall is not the first Tablelands MP to attract scandal.
He claimed the seat at a 2013 by-election sparked by the resignation of Richard Torbay, who held the Northern Tablelands as an independent for 14 years.
Mr Torbay resigned last March - a day after the Nationals dumped him as their candidate for the federal seat of New England.
He was subsequently referred to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption because of his relationship with crooked ex-Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.
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