MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999) 

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Commencement   
2. Regulations amended   
3. Substitution   
4. Interpretation  
5. Insertion   
6. Schedule   

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
- REG 1
Commencement 
     These regulations commence on the day they are notified in the
Gazette.

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
- REG 2
Regulations amended 
     These regulations amend the Motor Omnibus Services
Regulations.

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
- REG 3
Substitution 
     Regulation 1 is omitted and the following regulation
substituted:
"1     Name of regulations
     These regulations are the Motor Omnibus Services Regulations
1955.".

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
- REG 4
Interpretation
     The following definitions are inserted in regulation
3:  ""charges determination" means the determination of
charges made under section 4 of the Act that is instrument No 258 of 1998 dated
10 December 1998 and notified in the Gazette on 16 December
1998."zone" means the Central zone, the North zone, the South
zone or a shared zone, as defined respectively in the schedule to the charges
determination.".

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
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Insertion 
     Before regulation 18, the following regulation is inserted in Part
III:
"17      Passengers to hold and produce valid tickets 
"(1)      A person on an omnibus as a passenger commits an offence if the
person--
         (a)     is not in possession of a valid ticket; or
         (b)     fails to produce, on request, a valid ticket to--
               (i)     the driver of the omnibus; or
               (ii)     an inspector.
Penalty:   5 penalty units.
"(2)      For subregulation (1), a ticket in the possession of, or
produced by, a person is a valid ticket only if, under the charges
determination, it is valid--
         (a)     in relation to the person; and
         (b)     for travel on the date, and at the time, when the person is on the
omnibus; and
         (c)     for travel within the zone where the omnibus is, at that time,
travelling (whether or not the omnibus is moving).
"(3)      In a proceeding for contravention of subregulation (1), a
document that is, or appears to be, the charges determination (or a copy of that
determination)--
         (a)     is admissible in evidence without being proved; and
         (b)     is evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, of its contents
(so far as they are material to a matter in issue).".

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
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Schedule 
     Before the first item in Part II of the Schedule, the following item is
inserted:

      
      
      

"Regulation 17

travelling without a valid ticket

$50".

     
ENDNOTES
1     Reprinted as at 8 August 1995.  See also SL 1996 No 8 and Acts 1997 No 70
and 1999 No 20.
2     Notified in the Gazette on 12 August 1999.
See s 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 and s 9 of the
Subordinate Laws Act 1989.

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MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 14 OF 1999)
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Australian Capital
Territory

CONTENTS

Australian Capital
Territory

Motor Omnibus Services
Regulations1
(Amendment)
Subordinate Law No 14 of
19992

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following regulations
under the Motor Omnibus Services Act 1955.
    Dated 26 July 1999.
BRENDAN SMYTHMinister
GARY HUMPHRIESMinister