Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2008 (Qld)

Queensland Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2008 Subordinate Legislation 2008 No. 133 made under the State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999 Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Act 1994 Contents Part 1 1 2 Part 2 3 4 5 Part 3 6 7 Page Preliminary Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Amendment of Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005 Regulation amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Amendment of s 62 (Operations of taxis). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Insertion of new s 62A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 62A Requirements about access to continuously operating booking service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Amendment of State Penalties Enforcement Regulation2000 Regulation amended in pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Amendment of sch 3 (Transport legislation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation AmendmentRegulation (No. 1) 2008 Part 1 Preliminary [s 1] Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2008 . 2 Commencement This regulation commences on 30 May 2008. Part 2 Amendment of Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005 3 Regulation amended in pt 2 This part amends the Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005. 4 Amendment of s 62 (Operations of taxis) (1) Section 62, heading— omit, insert — ‘62 Accepting hirings ’. (2) Section 62, after ‘hiring’— insert — ‘, including a hiring requested through a relevant administrator,’. (3) Section 62— insert — Page 2 2008 SL No. 133

Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation AmendmentRegulation (No. 1) 2008 Part 2 Amendment of Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005 [s 5] ‘(2) In this section— relevant administrator , for a taxi, means a person who administers taxi services provided by using the taxi. Note — See— (a) section 64 of the Act for when a person administers a taxi service; and (b) section 43 of the Act for the obligation to hold a service contract for providing a public passenger service (including a service for the administration of taxi services) in particular areas.’. 5 Insertion of new s 62A After section 62— insert — ‘62A Requirements about access to continuously operating booking service ‘(1) This section applies if a condition of a taxi service licence requires the operator of a taxi service under the licence to have access to a continuously operating booking service. ‘(2) The operator must keep a booking receiver that is in working condition in the taxi to be used to provide the taxi service. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. ‘(3) The driver of a taxi must not use the taxi under the taxi service licence unless— (a) a booking receiver that is in working condition is in the taxi; and (b) the booking receiver is connected to the relevant booking despatcher. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. ‘(4) The driver of a taxi used to provide a taxi service under the taxi service licence must, immediately after the taxi service ends, reset the taximeter fitted to the taxi to remove the record of the fare amount for the taxi service. 2008 SL No. 133 Page 3

Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation AmendmentRegulation (No. 1) 2008 Part 3 Amendment of State Penalties Enforcement Regulation 2000 [s 6] Note — See sections 64 and 65 for other requirements about taximeters. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. ‘(5) In this section— booking despatcher means the part of a continuously operating booking service that is for despatching information about bookings. booking receiver means the part of a continuously operating booking service that is for receiving information about bookings.’. Part 3 Amendment of State Penalties Enforcement Regulation 2000 6 Regulation amended in pt 3 This part amends the StatePenaltiesEnforcementRegulation 2000. 7 Amendment of sch 3 (Transport legislation) Schedule 3, entry for Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005 — insert — ‘s 62A(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s 62A(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s 62A(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2’. Page 4 2008 SL No. 133

Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) and Another Regulation Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2008 ENDNOTES 1 Made by the Governor in Council on 22 May 2008. 2 Notified in the gazette on 23 May 2008. 3 Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4 The administering agency is the Department of Transport. © State of Queensland 2008 2008 SL No. 133 Page 5