Passenger Transport Amendment (Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Passenger Transport Amendment

(Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015

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.

ANDREW CONSTANCE, MP

Minister for Transport and Infrastructure

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to prescribe a further class of persons (being persons employed to work on a train operated on a railway that is a light rail system, by an entity that is under contract with Transport for NSW to operate the light rail system or a subcontractor of such an entity), members of which may be appointed by Transport for NSW to be an authorised officer for the purposes of the Passenger Transport Act 1990. A person so appointed may exercise the functions of an authorised officer only in so far as those functions relate to the light rail passenger services and railway premises and only if the exercise of those functions is subject to the control and direction of Transport for NSW.

This Regulation is made under the Passenger Transport Act 1990, including sections 46W and 63 (the general regulation-making power).

Passenger Transport Amendment (Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Passenger Transport Amendment (Authorised Officers)

Regulation 2015

under the

Passenger Transport Act 1990

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Passenger Transport Amendment (Authorised Officers)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Passenger Transport Regulation 2007

(1) Clause 239 Authorised officers

Insert “or (4) (f)” after “(h)” in clause 239 (2).

(2)	Clause 239 (4) (f)
Insert after clause 239 (4) (e):

(f) persons employed to work on a train operated on a railway that is a light rail system (and related railway premises), by an entity that is under contract with TfNSW to operate the light rail system or by a subcontractor of such an entity.