Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Regulations 1991   No. 81

Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations2 (Amendment)

The Australian Capital Territory Executive hereby makes the following Regulations under the Motor Traffic Act 1936.

Dated 11 April 1991.

CRAIG DUBY

Minister

TREVOR T. KAINE

Chief Minister

Principal Regulations

1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations.

Taximeter to be set in motion when taxi hired

2.  Regulation 14 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “prescribed by these Regulations” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Taximeters

3.  Regulation 18 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “prescribed by regulation 24” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Use of fare card pending installation of taximeter

4.  Regulation 19 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting in subregulation (1) “which is not the subject of a multiple hiring” after “journey”; and

(b)by omitting “specified in subregulation 24 (4)” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Use of fare conversion card

5.  Regulation 19A of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “prescribed by subregulation 24 (2)” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “prescribed by subregulation 24 (4)” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act, where the journey is not the subject of a multiple hiring”;

(c)by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “prescribed by regulation 24” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”;

(d)by omitting from subregulation (1A) “specified in subregulation 24 (4) or (5)” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”; and

(e)by omitting from subregulation (1A) “specified in subregulation 24 (4)” (last occurring) and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act, where the journey is not the subject of a multiple hiring”.

Repeal

6.  Regulation 24 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

Display of rate of fare in taxi

7.  Regulation 26 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from subregulation (1) “in accordance with the form set out in Schedule 2”;

(b)by adding at the end of subregulation (1) “listing the relevant amounts determined under section 36 of the Act and the services to which they relate”; and

(c)by omitting from paragraph 5 (a) “prescribed by these Regulations” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Journey by taxi to a picking-up point

8.  Regulation 28 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “prescribed by these Regulations” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (2) (d) “prescribed”; and

(c)by adding “determined under section 36 of the Act” after “fare”.

Hirer to pay fare

9.  Regulation 38 is amended by omitting from subregulation (2) “prescribed by these Regulations” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Driver not to demand anything other than the fare for the hiring

10.  Regulation 50 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) “prescribed by these Regulations” and substituting “determined under section 36 of the Act”.

Repeal

11.  Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is repealed.

NOTES

1. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 19 April 1991.

2. Regulations 1956 No. 2 as amended by 1956 No. 12; 1958 No. 12; 1965 No. 6; 1966 No. 7; 1970 No. 5; 1972 No. 4; 1974 No. 11; 1975 Nos. 24 and 29; 1977 No. 3; 1978 No. 1; 1979 No. 2; 1980 Nos. 1 and 4; 1981 No. 24; 1982 Nos. 3 and 50; 1983 No. 21; 1984 No. 21; 1985 No. 17; 1986 No. 23; 1987 No. 17; Ordinance No. 21, 1989; 1989 No. 18; 1990 Nos. 7 and 16.

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