Transport (Amendment) Act 1981 (NSW)

TRANSPORT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1981, No. 22

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ELIZABETHS H REGINS

Act No. 22, 1981.

An Act to amend the Transport Act, 1930, with respect to promotion appeals by officers employed under that Act and to the provision of insurance for owners of taxi-cabs and private hire cars against liability for damage to property. [Assented to, 13th May, 1981.]

Act No. 22, 1981. 2

Transport (A mendment).

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title.

1.      This Act may be cited as the “Transport (Amendment) Act, 1981”.

Amendment of Act No. 18, 1930.

2. The Transport Act, 1930, is amended in the manner set forth in

Schedule 1.

SCHEDULE 1. (Sec. 2.)

A m e n d m e n t s to the T ransport A c t , 1930.

(1) (a) Section 113—

Omit “Board:”, insert instead “Board.”.

(b) Section 113, proviso—

Omit the proviso.

(c) Section 113 (2) —

At the end of section 113, insert:—

(2) No appeal shall lie from a decision referred to in sub­

section (1) where, at the date of the decision, the salary for

the office to be filled exceeds—

(a) except as provided by paragraph (b)—the amount referred to in section 21 (1) (d) (i) of the Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal Act, 1980; or

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Transport {Amendment).

SCHEDULE I— continued.

Amendments to the Transport Act, 1930—continued.

(b) where an amount is prescribed pursuant to section 21 (1) (d) (ii) of that Act—that amount.

(2) Section 154 IS b ) (d) —

Omit the paragraph.

(3) Section 171c (2) (a), (b), (c) —

Omit the paragraphs, insert instead:—

(a)	by inserting in the definition of “Authorised insurer” in sub­ section (1) after the words “Motor Vehicles (Third Party Insurance) Act, 1942” the words “, or who is for the time being approved by the Minister as an authorised insurer”;
(b)	by omitting the words “motor omnibus” wherever occurring and by inserting instead the words “taxi-cab or private hire car”;
(c)	by omitting from subsection (9) the words “a service license may be suspended or revoked by the Commissioner” and by inserting instead the words “the license for the taxi-cab or private hire car, as the case may be, under the State 1 ransport (Co-ordination) Act, 1931, may be cancelled by the Commissioner”.