Passenger Transport Act 1990 Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment Regulation 1999 (1999-108) [GG No 25 of 26.2.1999, p 1092] (NSW)

1999 No 108

New South Wales

under the

Passenger Transport Act 1990

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Passenger Transport Act 1990.

Carl Scully
Minister for Transport

The objects of this Regulation are as follows:

(a)	to make it an offence to fail to return documents evidencing the accreditation of taxi-cab operators whose accreditation ceases to be in force, and to provide that such an offence may be dealt with by way of a penalty notice,
(b)	to prescribe fees for renewing the accreditation of taxi-cab operators (such fees will be assessed on the basis of the number of taxi-cabs managed by the operator),
(c)	to specify the expiry date for accreditations that were in force immediately before 1 September 1997 (such existing accreditations are renewable on payment of the prescribed renewal fee before l July

1 999).

This Regulation is made under the Passenger Transport Act 1990, including sections 9A and 63 (the general regulation-making power), and clauses 2 and 8 of Schedule 3.

Published in Gazette No 25 of 26 February 1999, page 1092 Page 1

Clause 1 Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment Regulation 1999

This Regulation is the Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services)

Amendment Regulation 1999.

mendment of Passen er Transport (Taxi-cab Services)

Regulation I995

The Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment Regulation 1999

Amendments Schedule 1

(Clause 2)

[1]        Clause 56 Return of licences, authorities, authority cards and documents of accreditation

Insert after clause 56 (3):

(4)	If an operator's accreditation under Division l of Part 2
of the Act is cancelled or suspended or otherwise ceases to be in force, the operator must immediately deliver or cause to be delivered to the Director-General any document evidencing the accreditation that has been provided by the Director-General to the operator.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

[2] Clauses 58

Insert after clause 58:

58A Fee for renewal of accreditation

( l )

For the purposes of section 9A ( l ) of the Act, the prescribed fee for the renewal of an operator's accreditation under Division l of Part 2 of the Act is as follows:

(a)	except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount calculated in accordance with the following rate: $5 for each week of the period during which the accreditation is in force, multiplied by the number of taxi-cabs managed (as at the assessment date) by the operator
(b)	if no taxi-cabs are managed by the operator as at the assessment date—$100.

(2)        An operator's accreditation can only be renewed if the prescribed renewal fee is paid before the end of the period during which the accreditation is in force.

(3) In this clause:
assessment date means a date, as determined by the
Director-General, occurring during the period during
which the accreditation concerned is in force.

Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment Regulation 1999

Schedule 1 Amendments

(4) This clause does not apply to an existing accreditation
within the meaning of clause 58B.

58B Special provisions relating to existing accreditations

(1)

For the purposes of clause 8 of Schedule 3 to the Act, the prescribed date in respect of an existing accreditation is

1 September 1999.

(2)

An existing accreditation may be renewed in accordance with section 9A of the Act, but only if the fee referred to

in that section is paid before l July 1999.

(3)

For the purposes of section 9A ( l ) of the Act, the prescribed fee for the renewal of an existing accreditation is as follows:

(a)	except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount calculated in accordance with the following rate: $5 for each week of the 12-month period ending 30 June 1999 multiplied by the number of taxi-cabs managed (as at the assessment date) by the operator to whom the existing accreditation relates
(b)	if no taxi-cabs are managed by the operator as at

the assessment date-$ 100.

(4)

In this clause:

assessment date means a date, as determined by the Director-General, occurring during the 12-month period ending 30 June 1999.

existing accreditation means an accreditation under
Division 1 of Part 2 of the Act that:

(a)	relates to a taxi-cab service, and
(b)	was in force immediately before l September 1997.

1. Schedule 1 Penalty notice offences

   Insert at the end of Part 2:

Clause 56 (4) fail to return cancelled/ $300

suspended/expired
document of accreditation