Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) STANDARD 2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement

           Part 1A--Interpretation

   3.      Definitions
   4.      Meaning of incident

           Part 2--Drivers

   5.      Purpose of pt 2
   6.      Qualifications for operating relevant vehicles that are motorbikes
   7.      Qualifications for operating relevant vehicles other than motorbikes
   8A.     Licence requirements for restricted driver authorisation
   9.      Particular qualification to drive a taxi
   10.     Alcohol and drugs
   11.     Fatigue management
   12.     Operational safety of vehicles
   13.     Seating
   14.     Customer service
   15.     Compliance with certain transport legislation
   15A.    Compliance with code of conduct
   15B.    Bus carrying school students on a no standing passenger road

           Part 3--Operators

   16.     Definitions
   17.     Purpose of pt 3
   18.     Training of operators
   19.     Ensuring drivers are trained in obligations under the Act
   20.     Ensuring drivers comply with fatigue management requirements
   21.     Ensuring operational safety of vehicles
   22.     Compliance with vehicle standards regulation, s 5
   22A.    Compliance with vehicle standards regulation, s 22
   23.     Design and construction of bus manufactured before 20 May 1992
   24.     Seating
   25.     Type and age of vehicles etc.
   26.     Compulsory third party insurance
   27.     Maintenance of vehicles
   28.     Customer service
   29.     Vehicles to be maintained in clean, tidy and comfortable condition etc.
   30.     Access to information about services provided
   30A.    Timetable for school service
   31.     Obligations in relation to incident management plan and incident report
   31A.    Requirements of incident management plan
   31B.    Requirements of incident report
   31C.    Review of incident management plan
   31D.    When ss 31 to 31C do not apply to operators of taxi services
   32.     Reliability of service
   33.     What must be shown on vehicle
   34.     Complaints
   35.     Compliance with code of conduct

           Part 4--Transitional provisions

   36.     Density of bus safety padding
   37.     Warning signs and warning lights fitted to school bus immediately before 1 October 1999
   38.     Heavy bus service life extension
   39.     Bus fitted with seatbelts for every seated passenger
           SCHEDULE 1 VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS AND OPERATOR'S OBLIGATIONS

           Part 1--Preliminary
           1. Purpose of sch 1
           2. Meaning of prescribed vehicle
           3. Meaning of particular classifications of prescribed vehicles

           Part 2--Maximum age, design and luggage
           4. Maximum age
           5. Working out age of vehicles
           6. Requirements about design, generally
           7. Requirements about design if used in the wilderness
           8. Luggage—open classification vehicle or regional classification vehicle
           9. Luggage—local classification vehicle
           10. Luggage in prescribed vehicle that is a bus not to impede exit

           Part 3--Bus padding
           11. Purpose of pt 3
           12. Application of pt 3
           13. Definition for pt 3
           14. Tops of seats
           15. Handrails
           16. Partitions 17. Padding materials and fastening
           18. Fittings on the back of a seat or partition

           Part 4--Warning signs and lights to be fitted to school bus
           19. School bus to be fitted with warning signs and warning lights
           20. Number and location of warning signs
           21. Content, size, shape and material of warning signs
           22. Number and location of warning lights
           23. Lens and light of warning lights
           24. Operation of warning lights
           25. Non-school bus—optional warning signs or warning lights for school students

           Part 5--Buses carrying school students on a no standing passenger road
           26. Application of pt 5
           27. Light bus built to carry not more than 16 passengers and used to provide a school service
           28. Light bus built to carry more than 16 passengers
           29. Heavy bus

           Part 6--Structural inspection and repair of buses
           30. Inspection of heavy buses
           31. Repairs to bus structures
           32. Inspection of structural repairs

           Part 7--Maintenance record
           33. Operator to keep maintenance record
           34. Operator to obtain endorsement on maintenance record by prescribed inspection entity
           SCHEDULE 2 HEAVY BUS SERVICE LIFE EXTENSIONS

           Part 1--5 year service life extension
           1. How to obtain a 5 year service life extension
           2. ADRs
           3. Body
           4. Chassis and suspension
           5. Steering
           6. Brakes
           7. Electrical components
           8. Engine and driveline
           9. Certificate by prescribed inspection entity

           Part 2--Age zero refurbishment service life extension
           10. How to obtain an age zero refurbishment service life extension
           11. ADRs
           12. Body, brakes and mechanical or structural components
           13. Certificate by prescribed inspection entity

           Part 3--Further provisions applying to 5 year service life extensions and age zero refurbishment service life extensions
           14. Inspection etc. of critical components
           15. Previous refurbishment or replacement
           16. Rating of particular components of bus, and evaluation of bus, under code
           SCHEDULE 3 MAINTAINING PARTICULAR RELEVANT VEHICLES IN A CLEAN, TIDY AND COMFORTABLE CONDITION AND OTHER VEHICLE REQUIREMENTS

           Part 1--Vehicle requirements
           1. Vehicle requirements

           Part 2--Way to maintain vehicle
           2. Way to maintain vehicle
           3. Seating
           4. Interior appearance and fittings
           5. Windscreen
           SCHEDULE 4 DICTIONARY
           Endnotes