New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 21

21 Exclusive rights

(1) A service contract must specify a region or route of operation.

(2) A route may proceed across water and a region may consist of a navigational area.

(3) A commercial contract operating on a particular route is to confer on the holder the exclusive right to operate regular passenger services on that route.

(4) The right conferred on a holder by subsection (3) precludes the Director-General from subsequently entering into a contract to which this Division applies with any other person for the operation of a similar service along a route sufficiently proximate that it would result in substantial competition with the service carried on by that holder.

(5) A commercial contract operating in a region may either:

(a) confer on the holder the exclusive right to operate regular passenger services in the region, or

(b) confer on the holder a right to operate such services in the region, being a right that is an exclusive right except with respect to a route or routes specified in the contract or in a variation made to the contract.