PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 7
Accreditation
PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 7
Accreditation
7 Accreditation
(1) A person who carries on a public passenger service by means of a bus or
other vehicle (other than a vessel), being a service operating within, or
partly within, New South Wales, is guilty of an offence unless the person is
an accredited service operator for that service.
: Maximum penalty--1,000
penalty units.
(2) The purpose of accreditation under this Division is to
attest--
(a) that the accredited person is (or, in the case of an accredited
corporation, the designated directors and managers of the corporation are)
considered to be of good repute and in all other respects fit and proper to be
responsible for the operation of a public passenger service, and
(b) that the
accredited person has demonstrated the capacity to meet the government's
standards of--
to the degree and in the manner
required in respect of services of the kind specified in the accreditation.
(3) Standards for the purposes of subsection (2) (b)--
(a) may be prescribed
by the regulations, or
(b) to the extent that they are not so prescribed, may
be determined and published by TfNSW and made available to interested persons.
(3A) Different standards for the purposes of subsection (2) (b) may be
prescribed or determined under subsection (3) for different classes of
public passenger services and different classes of operators of
public passenger services.
(4) Any person wishing to obtain from TfNSW a copy
of a standard published under subsection (3) (b) must pay the fee (if any)
prescribed by the regulations.
(5) Standards published under subsection (3)
(b) may be re-determined by TfNSW from time to time, and are to be
re-published and made available as occasion requires.
