Amendments of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1956. No. 12.

R E G U L A T I O N S U N D E R T H E MOTOR T R A F F I C

O R D I N A N C E 1936-1956.*

I A L L E N F A I R H A L L , , pursuance of the powers conferred on me by the Motor Traffic

the Minister of State for the Interior, in

Ordinance 1936-1956, hereby make the following Regulations.

Dated the seventh day of December, 1956.

A L L E N F A I R H A L L

Minister of State for the Interior.

AMENDMENTS OF THE TAXI AND PRIVATE H I R E CAR REGULATIONS.f

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the seventeenth Commencement,

day of December, 1956.

2. Regulation 18 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is Taximeters,

amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2.) after the word " w i t h " .
the words " all or any of ".

3. After regulation 19 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regula- tions the following regulation is inserted :—

" 1 9 A . — ( 1 . ) Whenever it appears to the Registrar, after a change use of fare

has been made in the flag fall charge, mileage rate or the amount pay- converslon card-
able for waiting time prescribed by regulation 24 of these Regulations,
that some time will elapse before the holder of a taxi licence will be
ab able to have the taximeter fitted to his vehicle adjusted to register

e new charge, rate or amount, the Registrar shall prepare and issue ) the holder a conversion card showing, in relation to the amount regis- tered by the taximeter, the amount payable, in respect of a hir ing at the new charge, rate or amount, by the person who has hired the taxi.

5737/56.—PRICE 3D.

" (2.) Where the amount payable in respect of a hiring at the new charge, rate or amount is an amount of shillings and pence and a fraction of a penny—

(a ) if the fraction of a penny does not exceed one halfpenny—
the Registrar shall, in preparing a conversion card, reduce
the amount payable by the amount of the fraction; and
(b) if the fraction exceeds one halfpenny—the Registrar shall,

in preparing a conversion card, increase the amount pay-

able by treating the fraction as One penny.

* Notified ill tin' Commonwealth	Gazette on 13th December, 1956.
•f Regulations 1956, No. 2.

" (3.) The holder of a taxi licence to whom a conversion card is issued by the Registrar shall keep the card displayed in the vehicle in a position where it may be easily read by a passenger or hirer.

" (4.) When the taximeter affixed to his vehicle has been adjusted to register the amended rates of fare the holder of the taxi licence shall return the conversion card to the Registrar.".

Taxi fares. 4. Regulation 24 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is

amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words " O n e shilling and sixpence " and inserting in their stead the words " O n e shilling and ninepence " ;

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (6.) ; and
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (7.) the words " O n e

shilling for each five m i n u t e s " and inserting in their stead the words " One shilling and threepence for each five minutes that the taxi is required to wait ".

5. Regulation 26 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is

repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Display of rate	"26 .— (1.) A person shall not drive or lie in charge of a taxi in
of fare on taxi.	a public street unless—

(a) the words "flag f a l l " (or where a taximeter is not affixed to the vehicle the words " hir ing charge " ) preceded by symbols representing the charge specified in sub-regula- tion (2.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations;

(b) the words " p e r m i l e " preceded by symbols representing the mileage rate specified in sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations; and

(c) the words "min imum f a r e " followed by symbols represent- ing the minimum fare specified in sub-regulation (10.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations,

are exhibited in one-inch gilt block letters upon a black backgroun

on the windscreen. •

" (2.) A person shall not drive or be in charge of a taxi in a ptiblie

street unless—

(a) the words " flag fall " (or where a taximeter is not affixed to the vehicle the words " hiring charge " ) preceded by symbols representing the charge specified in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations;

(b) the words " per mile " preceded by symbols representing the mileage rate specified in sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations; and

( r ) the words "min imum f a r e " followed by symbols represent- ing the minimum fare specified in sub-regulation (10.) of regulation 24 of these Regulations,

are exhibited, on the rear window, in one-inch gilt block letters upon a black background as near as practicable to the lower edge thereof.

" (3.) A person shall not drive or be in charge of a taxi, to which

a taximeter is affixed, in a public street, unless—

(a ) the words "flag f a l l " preceded by symbols representing the charge specified in sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 24 of these regulations; and

(b) immediately thereunder the words " p e r m i l e " preceded by symbols representing the mileage rate at which the taxi- meter is regulated to register,

are exhibited upon the face of the taximeter inside the glass, in letters and figures which are as large as practicable and are easily legible by a hirer.

^ ^ ^	" (4.) The symbols and words required by sub-regulations (1.)
A M 1 1	(2.) of this regulation to be exhibited on the windscreen and
•	Pi ' i ir window of a taxi shall not be displayed on anything affixed to the windscreen or rear window but shall be placed directly thereon by means of painting or similar process.

" (5.) A person shall not drive or be in charge of a taxi in a public

street—

(a ) if any reference to the flag fall or hiring charge, mileage rate or minimum fare is displayed in, on or about the taxi elsewhere or otherwise than as prescribed by these Regulations; or

(b) if a reference to any other charge or rate of fare for the
hiring of the taxi is displayed in, on or about the taxi ".

6. After regulation 34 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regula- tions the following regulation is inserted :—

" 3 4 A . — (1.) The holder of a taxi licence may affix to the top of the RooJsigna.

roof or hood of the vehicle a sign bearing the word " T A X I ", bu t '
the sign shall not contain any other word, letter or figure.

" (2.) Where a sign fitted to a taxi in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation is capable of being illuminated at night, a person shall not drive or be in charge of the taxi unless the light illuminating the sign is switched off when the taxi is not available for

^^hire ." .

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.