Section 19Part 4 — PERMITS
Conditions for driving passengers for hire or reward and penalty for contravention
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No vehicle, other than a public passenger vehicle when driven by a person holding a valid permit issued under section 15, may be used or offered for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward.
A person who drives a public passenger vehicle without a permit, or an operator or driver of public passenger vehicle who has a permit but who causes another person without a permit to drive a public passenger vehicle for hire or reward commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months, or to both.
Public passenger vehicles shall operate under such conditions as may be prescribed, and notwithstanding the issuance of a permit under section 15, a person who uses or offers a vehicle for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward in contravention of any of the prescribed conditions commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months, or to both.
A public passenger vehicle that is not a taxi shall not stand or ply for casual hire, and a person who uses or offers a public passenger vehicle, not being a taxi, for casual hire commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months, or to both.
Cross References
- Section 15 of Public Transport Act
section 15