Taxi-car Control Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1991 (WA)

13 December 19911 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 6247

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TAXI-CAR CONTROL ACT 1985

TAXI-CAR CONTROL AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 2) 1991

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation
1. These regulations may be cited as the Taxi-car Control Amendment

Regulations (No. 2) 1991.

Commencement

2.    These regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1992.

Principal regulations

3.    In these regulations the Taxi-car Control Regulations 1986* are referred to

as the principal regulations.

By His Excellency's Command, L. M. AULD, Clerk of the Council.

['Published in the Gazette of 15 January 1987 at pp. 65-80. For amendments to 11 July 1991 see pp. 379-380 of 1990 Index to Legislation of Western Australia.]

Regulation 7B inserted

4.    After regulation 7A of the principal regulations the following regulation is

inserted—

Replaced taxi-cars to have airconditioning

" 7B. (1) Where a taxi-car is replaced, due to the operation of regulation 7A or for any other reason, the replacement vehicle shall not be used as a taxi-car unless it is fitted with a functional airconditioning unit.

(2) The owner of a taxi-car which is fitted with an airconditioning unit shall ensure that the airconditioning unit is maintained so as to be fully functional when that vehicle is being used as a taxi-car. ".

Regulation 24 amended

5.    Regulation 24 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting after

subregulation (16) the following subregulation—

" (17) The driver of a taxi-car which is fitted with an airconditioning unit

shall activate that unit when requested to do so by a passenger. ".