Passenger Transport Regulation 2014 (2014-756) (NSW)

Passenger Transport Regulation 2014

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Regulation This Regulation is the Passenger Transport Regulation 2014.

2 Commencement (1) Except as provided by subclause (2), this Regulation commences on 1 December 2014 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website. (2) Parts 3 and 4 of this Regulation commence on 12 December 2014.

3 Definitions (1) In this Regulation: approved payment device has the same meaning as in Part 6 of the Passenger Transport (General) Regulation 2017. Opal card means a smartcard issued by TfNSW as an Opal card. paid area of a ferry wharf means all parts of a ferry wharf (being a wharf for which ticket barriers or smartcard readers are installed) that are located between the place where ferries dock and the ticket barriers or smartcard readers.

Note— A ferry wharf that does not have a ticket barrier will not have a paid area. restricted area of a railway station means: (a) if the station has no ticket barriers or smartcard readers—the platform, and (b) if the station has ticket barriers or smartcard readers—the platform and all other parts of the station between the platform and the ticket barriers or smartcard readers. the Act means the Passenger Transport Act 2014. the 1990 Act means the Passenger Transport Act 1990.

Note— The Act and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Regulation. (2) Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.

Part 2 Passenger service contracts

4 Transitional provisions—passenger service contracts (1) For the purposes of the application of Part 3 of the Act, pending the repeal of the whole of the 1990 Act, clause 11 of Schedule 3 to the Act applies to an existing service contract as if the whole of the 1990 Act were repealed. (2) Division 2 of Part 7 of the Passenger Transport Regulation 2007, as in force immediately before the repeal of that Division, continues to apply to or in respect of an existing service contract to which that Division applied immediately before that repeal. (3) A reference in section 36 of the Act to or in respect of accreditation under the Act, including a reference to a person who is not required to be accredited under the Act, is taken to be a reference to or in respect of accreditation under the 1990 Act, including a person who is not required to be accredited under the 1990 Act. (4) A reference in the 1990 Act to a service contract is taken to be a reference to the following: (a) a passenger service contract under the Act, (b) an existing service contract referred to in clause 11 of Schedule 3 to the Act. (5) In this clause: existing service contract means a contract in force under Part 3 of the 1990 Act immediately before the commencement of Part 3 of the Act.