Taxi Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 1996 (WA)

2996	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	[25 June 1996
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For amendments to 10 June 1996 see Gazette 26 March 1996.]

TAXI ACT 1994

TAXI AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 3) 1996

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Taxi Amendment

Regulations (No. 3) 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.

25 June 19961 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 2997

Regulations 17A and 17B inserted

3.     After regulation 17 of the principal regulations the following regulations

are inserted -

Approval of uniforms

17A. (1) The provider of a taxi dispatch service and any	operator who is independent from a taxi dispatch service must
have a driver's uniform approved under subregulation (3).

(2) The provider of a taxi dispatch service or an independent

operator may apply to the Director General, in the approved form,

for -

(a)	approval of a uniform;
(b)	approval to alter or add to a previously approved

uniform; or

(c) approval of a new uniform in place of a previously

approved uniform.

The Director General must approve a uniform, alteration or addition submitted for approval unless the Director General considers the uniform to be inappropriate, unnecessarily expensive or otherwise unsuitable for taxi drivers.

(3)

writing - (4) The Director General must notify an applicant, in

(a)	whether the application has been approved; and
(b)	if the application is refused, the reasons for the

refusal.

(5)	A uniform may include any or all of the following -
(a)	summer and winter outfits;
(b)	men's and women's outfits;
(c)	several items of clothing that may be worn in various

combinations; and

(d) optional extras (such as a raincoat, tie or hat).

Drivers to wear uniforms
17B.	(1) In this regulation -

"approved uniform" means a uniform approved by the

Director General under regulation 17A.

(2) A driver must wear the approved uniform of the taxi

dispatch service or independent operator for whom the driver

works at all time while engaged as a driver of a taxi.

(3) A driver must -

ensure that the driver's approved uniform is clean

(a)	and in good repair; and
(b)	must wear the approved uniform in a neat and tidy

manner.

(4) A driver may wear other items of clothing, in addition to

the approved uniform, if—

(a) the approved uniform does not include items of that

nature; and

(b) those items are in keeping with the approved ,,

uniform.

2998 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [25 June 1996

Schedule 1 amended

4.   Schedule 1 to the principal regulations is amended by inserting after the

item commencing "Regulations 16 and 17" the following item —	_
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Regulation 17B Driver failing to wear uniform, 100

uniform not clean etc. 1)

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.