Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 143AB

143AB Regulation may provide for matters relating to payment of fares

(1) A regulation may provide for a matter relating to the payment of a fare in relation to the use or hire of a public passenger vehicle.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may—

(a) prescribe offences for fare evasion in relation to the use or hire of a public passenger vehicle; or

(b) enable a driver or authorised person to request that a person—

(i) produce evidence that the person is not contravening, or has not contravened, a fare evasion provision; or

(ii) produce evidence of the person’s entitlement to a concession fare for the person’s use or hire of a public passenger vehicle.

(3) In this section—

"fare" , for a taxi, includes an amount a taxi driver may charge a person under a regulation for cleaning a taxi soiled by the person.