Taxi Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1996 (WA)

25 June 1996]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	2995
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TAXI ACT 1994

TAXI AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 2) 1996

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

(a)	after the definition of "section" by deleting the full stop and
substituting a semicolon; and

Citation

I. These regulations may be cited as the Taxi Amendment

Regulations (No. 2) 1996.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Taxi Regulations 1995* are referred to as the

principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette 10 January 1995, pp. 75-90.

For amendments to 28 May 1996 see Gazette 26 March 1996.]

Regulation 3 amended

3. Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended —

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(b) after the definition of "section" by inserting the following

definition —

"substitute taxi" means a vehicle which is fitted with a meter in order to operate as a taxi but which, as a condition of its operation, may only be operated in substitution for another taxi which is temporarily out of operation.

Regulation 19 amended

4.   Regulation 19 (3) of the principal regulations is amended —

(a)	after paragraph (c) by deleting "and";
(b)	after paragraph (d) by deleting the full stop and substituting the following —

; and "; and

(c) after paragraph (d) by inserting the following paragraph —

(e) the value of taxi plates for a substitute taxi, as declared in an application for approval of a transfer, is less than the average of the values declared in the preceding 10 applications to transfer taxi plates for substitute taxis received by the Director General, the fee shall be calculated on that average.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.