Taxi and Hire Vehicle Industries Regulations 2023 (Tas)

Taxi and Hire Vehicle Industries Regulations 2023

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Taxi and Hire Vehicle Industries Act 2008 .

19 June 2023

B. BAKER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

MICHAEL DARREL JOSEPH FERGUSON

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Taxi and Hire Vehicle Industries Regulations 2023 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation (1) In these regulations – Act means the Taxi and Hire Vehicle Industries Act 2008 ; AS 1851-2005 means the Australian Standard AS 1851-2005 entitled "Maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment" issued and published by Standards Australia, as amended or substituted from time to time; AS 2444-2001 means the Australian Standard AS 2444-2001 entitled "Portable fire extinguishers and fire blankets – selection and location" issued and published by Standards Australia, as amended or substituted from time to time; authorised meter adjuster means a person appointed by the Commission as an authorised meter adjuster under regulation 18 ; fire extinguisher means a fire extinguisher – (a) selected and located in accordance with AS 2444-2001; and (b) maintained in accordance with AS 1851-2005; holder, in respect of a perpetual taxi licence, means the owner of the licence or, if the licence has been leased, the person who is leasing the licence; label means a label issued to the holder of a licence by the Commission under regulation 10 ; security camera system means a security camera and its components approved by the Commission under section 94 of the Act for use in taxis; sign means a sign issued to the holder of a licence by the Commission under regulation 10 ; taximeter means an electronic instrument installed in a taxi that – (a) calculates the charge for hiring the taxi; and (b) indicates that charge in figures; wheelchair passenger means a person in a wheelchair who travels in a taxi and who – (a) satisfies the driver at the completion of the journey that the person is the holder of a transport scheme permit, relating to subsidised taxi travel due to the person's permanent dependence on a wheelchair, under the scheme administered by the Department; or (b) presents to the taxi driver a taxi travel voucher issued under an equivalent transport scheme of another State or a Territory. (2) Unless the contrary intention appears in the Act or these regulations, a term used in these regulations and also in the Passenger Transport Services Act 2011 or Passenger Transport Services Regulations 2023 has the same meaning in these regulations as in that Act or those regulations.