Brock Morgan on Tuesday pleaded guilty at the Ballarat Magistrates' Court to a single count each of driving while suspended and breaching a community corrections order.

The court heard Morgan was intercepted in the early hours of June 9 driving on a suspended licence in Cobden Street.

His licence had not been reinstated because he had failed to complete a safe driver program.

The single offence then breached a community corrections order he was undertaking at the time.

Morgan told police on the day he believed his licence suspension, which was originally suspended on December 4 for six months, had lapsed four days earlier.

Morgan's lawyer, David Taminika, told the court his client completed a road trauma program which he naively thought was the same as the program he needed to complete to get his licence back.

Mr Taminika said his client made a drastic mistake at the time, but was always trying to do the right thing by the CCO. 

He added that but for the charge on June 9, Morgan would have completed the CCO without incident.

Magistrate Ronald Saines warned Morgan driving suspended can be punishable by imprisonment.

But given the progress Morgan had made on the CCO, Mr Saines said he was willing to give the 36-year-old a chance to avoid jail.

He adjourned sentencing for six months, further suspending his licence for that time.

Mr Saines told Morgan he would likely go to prison if he was caught driving in that time, but if he did not re-offend he would then likely be given a fine or unpaid community work to complete.  

As for the breach of CCO, Morgan was ordered to complete 50 hours of community work over the next six months.