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TASMANIA
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TAXI AND LUXURY HIRE CAR INDUSTRIES
AMENDMENT BILL 2002
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CONTENTS
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Principal Act
4. Section 26A inserted
26A. Application of Workers Rehabilitation and
Compensation Act 1988
[Bill 94]-IX
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TAXI AND LUXURY HIRE CAR INDUSTRIES
AMENDMENT BILL 2002
(Brought in by the Minister for Infrastructure, the
Honourable James Glennister Cox)
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car
Industries Act 1995
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled,
as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car
Industries Amendment Act 2002.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which this Act
receives the Royal Assent.
Principal Act
3. In this Act, the Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries
Act 1995* is referred to as the Principal Act.
*No. 27 of 1995
[Bill 94] 3
s. 4 No. Taxi and Luxury Hire Car Industries 2002
Amendment
Section 26A inserted
4. After section 26 of the Principal Act, the following
section is inserted in Part 6:
Application of Workers Rehabilitation and
Compensation Act 1988
26A. (1) For the purposes of the Workers
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, a person
who drives a taxi with the consent or authority of
the responsible operator of the taxi is, while driving
or performing any associated activity, taken to be a
worker employed by the responsible operator.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the
taxi driver is also the responsible operator of the taxi
that he or she is driving.
(3) In this section -
"responsible operator", in respect of a taxi,
means -
(a) if an arrangement is in force under
regulation 15 of the Taxi Industry
Regulations 1996, the person who,
by virtue of that regulation, is the
responsible operator; or
(b) if no such arrangement is in force,
the holder of a relevant existing
cab licence or relevant perpetual
taxi licence;
"taxi" has the same meaning as in
section 23A.
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