Passenger Transport Amendment (Taxi-cab Pre-payment Scheme and Smartcard Readers) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Passenger Transport Amendment (Taxi-cab

Pre-payment Scheme and Smartcard

Readers) Regulation 2014

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.

GLADYS BEREJIKLIAN, MP

Minister for Transport

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to enable Transport for NSW to specify software, or the type of software, that can be used in smartcard readers, and
(b)	to make permanent the scheme for taxi-fare pre-payment for taxi-cabs provided by Central Coast Taxis (the trial for which was scheduled to end on 13 October 2014).

This Regulation is made under the Passenger Transport Act 1990, including the definition of smartcard reader in section 3 (1) and section 63 (the general regulation-making power).

Passenger Transport Amendment (Taxi-cab Pre-payment Scheme and Smartcard Readers) Regulation

2014 [NSW]

Passenger Transport Amendment (Taxi-cab Pre-payment

Scheme and Smartcard Readers) Regulation 2014

under the

Passenger Transport Act 1990

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Passenger Transport Amendment (Taxi-cab Pre-payment
Scheme and Smartcard Readers) Regulation 2014.

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 71 Meaning of “smartcard reader”

Insert “or uses software of a type, or with a capability, specified from time to time by

TfNSW by notice published in the Gazette” after “Gazette” in clause 71 (b).

(2)	Clause 118 Information in taxi-cabs
Omit “trial” where firstly occurring in clause 118 (2A). Insert instead “scheme”.
(3)	Clause 118 (2A)
Omit “while that trial is in force”.
(4)	Clause 163A Central Coast pre-payment scheme
Omit “trial” from clause 163A (10). Insert instead “scheme”.
(5)	Clause 163A (11)
Omit the subclause.