Passenger Transport Amendment (Transitional Appointments of Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Passenger Transport Amendment

(Transitional Appointments of Authorised

Officers) Regulation 2015

under the

Passenger Transport Act 2014

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Passenger Transport Act 2014.

ANDREW CONSTANCE, MP

Minister for Transport and Infrastructure

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to make further provision for the transitional appointment of authorised regulation-making power) and clauses 1 and 15 of Schedule 3 to the Act.

officers pending the repeal of the Passenger Transport Act 1990.
Passenger Transport Amendment (Transitional Appointments of Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015

[NSW]

Passenger Transport Amendment (Transitional Appointments of

Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015

under the

Passenger Transport Act 2014

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Passenger Transport Amendment (Transitional Appointments of 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 2014

Clause 13

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

13      Authorised officers

(1)	A person appointed as an authorised officer under the 1990 Act before or on or after the commencement of the amending Regulation is taken also to be appointed as an authorised officer, on the same terms, under the Act.
(2)	Without limiting subclause (1), an authorised officer authorised under the 1990 Act to issue a penalty notice for offences relating to fares or tickets under that Act or the regulations under that Act is taken to be authorised to issue a penalty notice for an offence created by section 127 of the Act.
(3)	An identity card issued to an authorised officer under the 1990 Act before or on or after the commencement of the amending Regulation is, while in force under that Act, taken also to be an identity card issued under section 156 of the Act.
(4)	In this clause: amending Regulation means the Passenger Transport Amendment (Transitional Appointments of Authorised Officers) Regulation 2015.