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TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 91ZU

Public passenger service starting in taxi service area for a taxi

91ZU Public passenger service starting in taxi service area for a taxi

(1) A person must not use a taxi to provide a public passenger service for a journey that starts in a taxi service area unless—
(a) the taxi service area in which the journey starts is the taxi service area for the taxi; or
(b) a condition of the taxi service licence otherwise authorises the taxi to be used to provide a public passenger service for the journey.
Penalty—
Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1) , it does not matter where the journey ends or if the journey involves leaving and re-entering the taxi service area.
(3) This section does not apply to the use of a taxi to provide a public passenger service under a contract with a government entity.
(4) In this section—

"government entity" means—
(a) any State or the Commonwealth; or
(b) a department, service, agency, authority, commission, corporation, instrumentality, board, office or other entity established for a government purpose of any State or the Commonwealth; or
(c) a part of an entity mentioned in paragraph (b) .



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