Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 88

88 Primary duty of care

(1) Each person in the chain of responsibility for a taxi service or booked hire service must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the safety of the person’s activities, including business practices and making decisions, relating to providing the service.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , each person in the chain of responsibility must—

(a) eliminate safety risks or, to the extent it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate safety risks, minimise the safety risks; and

(b) ensure the person’s conduct does not directly or indirectly encourage another person, including another person in the chain of responsibility, to contravene a provision of relevant transport legislation relating to—

(i) providing a taxi service or booked hire service; or

(ii) a motor vehicle used to provide a taxi service or booked hire service.