New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 19

19 Fares

(1) A commercial contract must fix a scale of maximum fares.

(2) The scale must be fixed at not less than the average level of fares for the time being prevailing in the industry for comparable services, and due allowance must be made for inflationary movements in the costs of providing the service.

(3) Maximum fares should be specified in terms of the distance for which a passenger, on payment of a fare, is entitled to be carried. For that purpose the contract may resort to terms of average or minimum distances, but it is not sufficient to describe distance in terms only of the intervals between stopping-places along a route.

(4) Under a non-commercial contract, provision may be made for adjustments in respect of any shortfall or surplus resulting from the difference between the agreed contract price and any revenue generated by fares.