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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 178

Validation of service contracts in Translink area

178 Validation of service contracts in Translink area

(1) This section applies if, before the commencement of the relevant section—
(a) a person provided a public passenger service for a service contract area or route that is in the Translink area; and
(b) the public passenger service was provided under a written agreement with the chief executive that was a service contract.
(2) The written agreement and anything done under the agreement, is taken to be, and to have always been, as valid as it would be if it were a written agreement with the chief executive within the meaning of section 43(1)(a)(ii), entered into after the commencement of the relevant section.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the public passenger service provided under the written agreement is taken to be, and to have always been, as validly provided under the agreement as it would have been if it had been provided after the commencement of the relevant section.
(4) Subsection (2) does not make invalid any instrument that is valid.
(5) In this section—

"relevant section" means the Transport Legislation Amendment Act 2005 , section 52 .



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