Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (TRANSLINK TRANSIT AUTHORITY) ACT 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

           Division 1--Introduction

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Purposes of Act and their achievement
   4.      Act binds all persons
   5.      Relationship with Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Act 1994

           Division 2--Interpretation

   6.      Definitions
   7.      What is the TransLink area
   8.      What is a mass transit network

           Part 2--Establishment and status of TransLink

   9.      Establishment
   10.     Legal status
   11.     TransLink represents the State
   12.     TransLink declared to be excluded matter for Corporations Act
   13.     Application of other Acts

           Part 3--Functions and powers of TransLink

           Division 1--Functions

   14.     Main function and its achievement

           Division 2--Powers

   15.     General powers
   16.     Service contracts
   17.     Work performance arrangements
   18.     Powers subject to Ministerial directions

           Part 4--TransLink's board

           Division 1--Board membership

   19.     The members
   20.     Appointed members
   21.     Eligibility for appointment
   22.     Duration of appointment
   23.     Terms and conditions of appointment
   24.     Resignation
   25.     Delegation by local government member

           Division 2--Meetings and other business of board

   26.     Conduct of business
   27.     Times and places of meetings
   28.     Quorum
   29.     Presiding at meetings
   30.     Conduct of meetings
   31.     Decisions outside meetings
   32.     Minutes and record of decisions

           Division 3--Miscellaneous provision

   33.     Protection of members from civil liability

           Part 5--Staffing

           Division 1--Chief executive officer of TransLink

   34.     Chief executive officer
   35.     Acting chief executive officer

           Division 2--Employing office

   36.     Establishment
   37.     Functions
   38.     Employing office may employ staff

           Part 6--Directions, reporting and information

   39.     Ministerial directions or guidelines to TransLink
   40.     Infrastructure project reporting
   41.     Ministerial access to information
   42.     TransLink network plans
   43.     Fare strategies
   44.     System performance reports
   45.     Annual report
   46.     Provisions for making plan or recommendation to Minister

           Part 7--Special events

   47.     Declaration of special event
   48.     Coordination power for mass transit services to special events
   49.     TransLink approval required for special event services
   50.     Special event approvals

           Part 8--Miscellaneous provisions

   51.     Request for information from prospective appointees
   52.     Criminal history report about appointee or prospective appointee
   53.     Disclosure of disqualification by appointees
   54.     Disclosure of conflicts of interest by appointees
   55.     Delegations by TransLink
   56.     Regulation-making power

           Part 9--Transitional provisions

   57.     Deferral of application of s 49 for particular contracts and arrangements for special event services
   58.     Novation of particular State contracts to TransLink
   59.     Existing service contracts not affected
   60.     Transfer of particular State assets and liabilities to TransLink
   61.     Registration of transferred assets
   62.     References to former body known as Translink
   63.     Existing industrial instruments that bind employing office
           SCHEDULE 1 -- SERVICE CONTRACT AREAS OR ROUTES FOR THE TRANSLINK AREA
           SCHEDULE 2 -- DICTIONARY
           Endnotes