New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PASSENGER TRANSPORT REGULATION 2007 - REG 28

28 Categories of driver authorities

(1) The following categories of driver authorities are created under sections 11 (3) and 33 (4) of the Act:

(a) authorities to drive buses,

(b) authorities to drive tourist service vehicles (other than buses),

(c) authorities to drive taxi-cabs in the Metropolitan transport district,

(d) authorities to drive taxi-cabs in the Newcastle transport district,

(e) authorities to drive taxi-cabs in the Wollongong transport district,

(f) authorities to drive taxi-cabs elsewhere than in the transport districts referred to in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e),

(g) authorities to drive other public passenger vehicles (not being private hire vehicles) of the kind specified in the authority.

Note: Section 40 of the Act provides for the issue of driver authorities in respect of private hire vehicles. Section 40 (4) permits the regulations to create categories or grades of such authorities. However, at the commencement of this Regulation, no such categories or grades have been created.

(2) A driver may be issued with an authority which is valid for any one of the above categories or for any combination of them (whether or not in combination with an authority to drive private hire vehicles).