New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 28H

28H Emergency routes

(1) If, in the opinion of the Director-General, it is expedient in the circumstances of an emergency, or for the purpose of urgent maintenance of any road or road portion, or from other pressing necessity, to suspend the operation of transitway services along the whole or part of a transitway route, the Director-General may by order in writing:

(a) prohibit, for a period of time (not exceeding 14 days) specified in the order, the operation of such services along so much of the route as may be described in the order, and

(b) authorise the operation, during the period so specified, of such services on an alternative route determined (in a manner referred to in section 28G (5)) by the order,

and such an order has effect according to its terms.

(2) The period specified by the order may be a period commencing before execution of the order, but not commencing earlier than the beginning of the business day last preceding its execution.

(3) As soon as practicable after its execution:

(a) a copy of the order is to be served, personally or by post, on the holder of any service contract whose region or route of operation is affected by it, and

(b) the terms of the order are to be published in one or more newspapers circulating in an area that includes the affected transitway route.