Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and Control) Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

TAXI-CARS (CO-ORDINATION

AND CONTROL).

No. 10 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination

and Control) Act 1963-1978.

[Assented to 8 October 1980.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Taxi-cars Short title.

(Co-ordination and Control) Amendment Act 1980.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and

approved

14 July 1977

Control) Act 1963-1978 is referred to as the principal

and amended

by Acts Nos.

Act.

68 of 1977, 27 of 1978 and

no ^4 lc"

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and

Control) Act 1963-1980.

No. 10.] Taxi-cars (Co-ordination and [1980.

Section 16 Control).

amended. 2. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection-

" (2a) If the Board is not satisfied in terms of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of this section that there is an applicant who has the prescribed qualifications and has complied with the prescribed conditions, the Board may neverthe- less recommend to the Minister that a taxi-car licence be issued and the Minister may direct and authorise the Board to issue a taxi-car licence under this section. " .

Section 19 3. Section 19 of the principal Act is amended in

amended.

subsection (1)

(a) by deleting "fifty dollars" in paragraph (a) and substituting the following-

" one hundred dollars "; and

(b) by deleting "thirty dollars" in paragraph (b) and substituting the following-

" sixty dollars " .

Section 23E1

inserted. 4. After section 23G of the principal Act, the

following section is inserted-

Chairman

may call	" 23H. Where under subsection (1) of section
Person
before Board.	23E it appears to the Board that disciplinary procedures under this Act should be instituted in relation to any person, the Chairman of the Board may, instead of calling upon that person to show cause to him pursuant to that section, call upon that person to show cause to the Board why he should not be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of this Act and where the Chairman of the Board does so any function, duty or power vested in the Chairman of the Board for the purposes of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 23E, or section 23F, may be carried out or exercised with respect to that occasion by the Board and any reference in those provisions to the Chairman of the Board shall for that purpose be construed as a reference to the Board accordingly. " .