Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations (ACT)

wealth Gazette on 11 February, 1966 and commenced on 14 February, 1966.

REGULATIONS 1966, No. 7*

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day commence-

of February, 1966.	ment-
amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the £°rdersion	2. Regulation 19A of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is use of fare

following sub-regulation:—

" (2.) Where the amount payable in respect of a hiring at a new charge,

rate or amount is an amount that includes a fraction of a cent—

(a) if the fraction does not exceed one-half of a cent—the Registrar shall, in preparing a conversion card, reduce the amount payable by the amount of the fraction; or

* Made under the Motor Traffic Ordinance 1936-1965 on 7 February, 1966; notified in the Common-

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(b) if the fraction exceeds one-half of a cent—the Registrar shall, in preparing a conversion card, increase the amount payable by treating the fraction as One cent.".

F««for	3. Regulation 23 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is amended by omitting the words " Ten shillings " and " Five shillings " and inserting in their stead the words " One dollar" and " Fifty cents", respectively.
taximeter.

4. Regulation 24 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is

repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

T»xi fares. " 24.—(1.) The maximum fare for a journey by a taxi where the taxi

is not required to travel outside the City Area is the total of—

(a) the flag-fall or hiring charge;

(b) an amount calculated in accordance with the mileage rate for

the journey; and

(c) the amounts payable under sub-regulations (6.), (7.) and (10.)

of this regulation, if applicable.

" (2.) The flag-fall or hiring charge is Twenty cents.

" (3.) The mileage rate for a journey is a rate of Seventeen and one-half

cents for each mile travelled by a passenger in the taxi on the journey.
" (4.) The maximum fare for a journey by a taxi where the taxi is required to travel outside the City Area (not being a journey which com- menced in the Jervis Bay Territory) is—

(a) an amount calculated at the rate of Twelve cents for each mile which would have been travelled by the taxi if the journey had commenced at the public stand nearest to which the taxi is when the hiring is made and had ended at the public stand nearest to the place at which the hiring is terminated; and

(b) the amounts payable under sub-regulations (6.), (7.) and (10.) of this regulation, if applicable.

" (5.) The maximum fare for a journey by a taxi where the journey

commences in the Jervis Bay Territory is—

(a) an amount calculated at the rate of Twelve cents for each mile which would have been travelled by the taxi if the journey had commenced at the place where the taxi is usually garaged and had ended back at that place; and

(6) the amounts payable under sub-regulations (6.), (7.) and (10.)

of this regulation, if applicable.

" (6.) Where a taxi is required to wait for a period either before, during or after the end of a journey, the driver may charge an amount cal- culated at the rate of Fifteen cents for each five minutes that the taxi is required to wait.

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" (7.) Where the driver of a taxi is requested to carry the luggage or

goods of the hirer, the driver may charge—

(a) where the hirer travels with his luggage or goods and the weight of that luggage or goods exceeds fifty-six pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of Five cents for each fifty-six pounds or part thereof in excess of fifty-six pounds, in addition to the fare for the hiring, but the charge for the carriage of the luggage or goods shall not exceed Twenty cents; or

(b) where the hirer does not travel with his luggage or goods—an
amount agreed between the hirer and the driver as being
the fare payable for the conveyance of the luggage or goods.

" (8.) An amount is not chargeable for the carriage of the luggage or goods of a hirer, where the hirer travels with his luggage or goods, and the weight of the luggage or goods does not exceed fifty-six pounds.

" (9.) Where a person hires a taxi—

(a) to proceed to a place where a wedding is to take place, to wait while the wedding takes place and, afterwards, to proceed in accordance with the directions of the hirer; or

(b) to proceed to a place where a funeral service is to take place, to wait while the service takes place and, afterwards, to proceed in accordance with the directions of the hirer,

the maximum fare that may be charged for the hiring is Five dollars for the first hour or part thereof plus an amount of Fifty cents for each subse- quent period of fifteen minutes or part thereof.
" (10.) Where the hiring of a taxi is communicated to the driver of the taxi by radio-telephony, the driver may charge a booking fee of Five cents. " (11.) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) ' the City Area' means the area delineated by cross hachuring

on the plan in the Third Schedule to these Regulations;

(fc) 'the Jervis Bay Territory' means the territory accepted by the

Commonwealth under the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance

Act 1915.".

5. Regulation 52 of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations is offences

amended by omitting the words " Fifty pounds " and inserting in their stead
the words " One hundred dollars ".