New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 28EA

28EA Bus service contract regions

(1) The Director-General may from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, declare an area of the State specified in the order to be a bus service contract region for the purposes of this Division with effect from the date specified in the order.

(2) The Director-General may at any time, by order published in the Gazette, vary or abolish any bus service contract region with effect from the date specified in the order.

(3) A bus service contract region may be declared (or a declaration of a contract region varied):

(a) by naming, or illustrating by means of a map or plan, the area or routes (or both) that constitute the region or that are affected by the variation (as the case may be), or

(b) in such other manner as is sufficient to specify the region or variation.

(4) A bus service contract region may be declared in respect of an area even if that area contains transitway routes, emergency routes or strategic transport corridors.

(5) The declaration, variation or abolition of a bus service contract region under this section does not affect the continued operation of a service contract for a regular passenger service entered into on or after the commencement of this section unless the service contract so provides.

Note: Part 7 of Schedule 3 provides for a declaration or variation of a bus service contract region to vary certain service contracts for regular bus services that were in existence before the commencement of this section.