Victorian Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FOUNDATION TAXI AND HIRE CAR REFORMS) ACT 2013 (NO. 43 OF 2013)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  

   PART 2--TAXI AND HIRE CAR LICENSING

   3.      Definitions (taxi and hire car licensing)  
   4.      Vehicles not to be operated unless licensed  
   5.      Application for licence  
   6.      Hire cars and special purpose vehicles  
   7.      New section 142A inserted  
   8.      Taxi-cab licences  
   9.      New sections 143AA and 143AB inserted  
   10.     Amendment of section 143A  
   11.     New section 143B inserted  
   12.     Condition forbidding transfer of taxi-cab licence  
   13.     Conditions  
   14.     Cancellation or alteration of licences  
   15.     New section 146AAA inserted  
   16.     Review by Tribunal of licence cancellation etc.  
   17.     Annual licence fees  
   18.     Setting of fees  
   19.     Transfers of licences  
   20.     Assignments  
   21.     Effect on taxi-cab licences of certain outcomes  
   22.     New section 157A inserted  

   PART 3--TAXI FARES AND TAXI NON-CASH PAYMENT SURCHARGES

           Division 1--Amendment of Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983

   23.     Definitions  
   24.     Conditions  
   25.     Provision empowering Minister to determine taxi fares or hiring rates repealed  
   26.     New sections 144B to 144K inserted  
   27.     Amendment of section 157  
   28.     New Divisions 5A and 5B inserted in Part VI  
   29.     Repeal of Division 9 of Part VI  

           Division 9--of Part VI of the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983 is repealed.

   30.     New section 226A inserted  

           Division 2--Amendment of Essential Services Commission Act 2001

   31.     Definitions  

   PART 4--TAXI DRIVERS

           Division 1--Amendment of Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983

   32.     New Division 5C inserted in Part VI  

           Division 2--Amendment of Accident Compensation Act 1985

   33.     Drivers carrying passengers for reward  

   PART 5--TAXI SERVICES COMMISSION

           Division 1--Amendment of Transport Integration Act 2010

   34.     New section 115E of Transport Integration Act 2010 substituted  
   35.     Appointment of Commissioners  
   36.     Declaration of pecuniary interests  
   37.     Vacancies, resignation, removal from office  
   38.     New section 115QA inserted  
   39.     New section 115SB inserted  
   40.     New section 115T substituted  
   41.     New section 115V inserted  

           Division 2--Amendment of Transport Legislation Amendment (Taxi Services Reform and Other Matters) Act 2011

   42.     Amendment of section 109—Functions of Taxi Services Commission  
   43.     Amendment of section 112—Terms and conditions of Commissioners  
   44.     Repeal of redundant provisions—Object and delegation power of Taxi Services Commission  
   45.     New section 124 substituted  

           Division 3--Amendment of Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983

   46.     Security cameras  
   47.     New section 158D inserted  
   48.     New Division 7 inserted in Part VI  
   49.     New Subdivision 5A inserted in Division 9A of Part VI  
   50.     Transport and ticket infringements  
   51.     Prosecutions  
   52.     Consequential amendments  

           Division 4--Amendment of Road Safety Act 1986

   53.     Consequential amendments relating to the Taxi Services Commission  

   PART 6--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   54.     Repeal of amending Act  
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