Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment (Licence Fees) Regulation 2003 (NSW)

2003 No 687

New South Wales

Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab

Services) Amendment (Licence Fees)

Regulation 2003

under the

Passenger Transport Act 1990

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

MICHAEL COSTA, M.L.C.,

Minister for Transport Services

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to facilitate an arrangement under which the holder of a private hire vehicle licence acquired before 13 September 2001 may surrender the licence in return for the issue of a new taxi-cab licence without having to pay full market value for the new licence.
This Regulation is made under the Passenger Transport Act 1990, including section 63

(the general power to make regulations) and section 32I.

Published in Gazette No 140 of 12 September 2003, page 9399	Page 1
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Clause 1	Regulation 2003

Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Amendment

(Licence Fees) Regulation 2003

under the

Passenger Transport Act 1990

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services)
Amendment (Licence Fees) Regulation 2003.

2 Amendment of Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Regulation 2001

The Passenger Transport (Taxi-cab Services) Regulation 2001 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Regulation 2003
Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 82 Reduced fees for licences

Omit clause 82 (1). Insert instead:

(1)

For the purposes of section 32I (2) of the Act, the following circumstances are prescribed as circumstances in which the Director-General may fix the licence fee for a taxi-cab licence at less than the current value of the licence on the open market or decide not to impose a licence fee for the licence:

(a)

circumstances in which the Director-General is of the opinion that the service concerned would, for economic or other reasons, be unlikely to be provided if the full licence fee were to be imposed,

(b)

circumstances in which an application for a taxi-cab licence is made, during the period between 1 September 2003 and 31 December 2004, by the holder of a private hire vehicle licence (being a licence acquired by the holder prior to 13 September 2001) in accordance with arrangements approved by the Director-General under which the private hire vehicle licence is to be replaced by a taxi-cab licence.

[2]      Clause 82 (2)

Insert “(a)” after “subclause (1)”.

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