Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Transport Act 1983 - SECT 162

Regulations

162. Regulations



(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to-

   (a)  the design and construction of commercial passenger vehicles so as to
        secure the safety comfort and convenience of drivers, passengers and
        the public;

   (aa) empowering an officer of the licensing authority to exempt particular
        commercial passenger vehicles or classes of those vehicles from any of
        the provisions made under paragraph (a);





   (b)  the fitting of screens equipment and warning devices on commercial
        passenger vehicles of such dimensions design and construction as the
        licensing authority shall approve so as to secure the safety of
        drivers, and the prohibiting of the operation of such equipment or
        devices except on prescribed occasions;

   (ba) the equipment to be used, or not to be used, in or on commercial
        passenger vehicles;



   (bb) without limiting paragraph (b)-

   (i)  requiring the installation of security cameras in taxi-cabs; and

   (ii) regulating the installation and use of security cameras in taxi-cabs
        and the downloading, printing, possession, publication, transmission
        and disclosure of images or other data obtained from them;

   (bc) information derived from or contained in equipment required or
        permitted by or under this Act or the regulations to be used in or on
        a taxi-cab, including-

   (i)  the keeping of the information; and

   (ii) the provision of the information to the licensing authority; and

   (iii) the inspection or auditing of the information by or on behalf of the
        licensing authority;

   (c)  prescribing and regulating in respect of vehicles (including motor
        vehicles operating under a special licence under section 155)-

   (i)  the conduct and duties of owners, drivers, conductors and passengers;

   (ii) the dress and appearance of drivers and conductors;

   (iia) the appearance of the vehicles (including the signs, notices and
        labels to be used, or not to be used, in or on the vehicles);

   (iii) the fares or hiring rates to be paid by passengers, the collection
        thereof and the issue of tickets;

   (iv) the safeguarding and disposal of lost or unclaimed property left in or
        carried on such vehicles;

   (v)  agreements between owners and drivers of such vehicles;

   (vi) generally, conditions relating to the operation and use of such
        vehicles;

   (ca) appointing stands and feeder ranks for commercial passenger vehicles;



   (d)  prohibiting or regulating the carriage of goods in commercial
        passenger vehicles;

   (e)  the alteration, maintenance and repair of vehicles;



   (ea) the inspection of commercial passenger vehicles;



   (f)  the publication of time-tables, fares and rates in or on vehicles
        whether by exhibition or otherwise;



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   (gb) exempting from section 139(1) a specified commercial passenger vehicle
        or a specified class of commercial passenger vehicle operated by a
        specified person or a specified class of person of a kind referred to
        in section 139(1A);

   (h)  the conditions to which licences or permits are subject;









        (i)    applications for licences or permits and the revocation or
               suspension thereof;



(ia) specifying, in relation to the granting of taxi-cab licences under
section 143A-

   (i)  the classes of people and the qualifications of people eligible to
        apply for licences; and

   (ii) the procedures to be followed for the granting of licences;

   (j)  records to be kept in relation to vehicles and the inspection of those
        records;



   (k)  the furnishing by owners of vehicles of statistical and other
        information;



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   (m)  the transfer of licences;





   (ma) regulating trading in taxi-cab licences (within the meaning of section
        150A), including-

   (i)  requiring that a person trading in taxi-cab licences be accredited to
        do so;

   (ii) providing for a system of accreditation to support such a requirement,
        including-

                (A)  imposing minimum requirements concerning integrity,
                     competence and financial capacity;

                (B)  the conditions to be observed by an accredited person in
                     trading in taxi-cab licences (including conditions
                     concerning the amounts that may be charged for carrying
                     out that trading);

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   (iv) requiring that specified information, or information of a specified
        type, be provided by a person trading in taxi-cab licences to a person
        to whom a taxi-cab licence is to be transferred or to whom a right to
        operate a vehicle under a taxi-cab licence is to be assigned;

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   (mb) authorising a person, or class of person, to trade in taxi-cab
        licences (within the meaning of section 150A) in specified
        circumstances;

   (mc) specifying dealings or classes of dealings for or in connection with
        the transfer of taxi-cab licences or the assignment of rights to
        operate vehicles under taxi-cab licences that must be conducted,
        recorded or disclosed in accordance with-

   (i)  the rules of a securities exchange or other system specified by the
        Director; or

   (ii) a method or rules specified by the Director;



   (md) specifying information or classes of information-

   (i)  relating to dealings or classes of dealings referred to in paragraph
        (mc); or

   (ii) necessary to enable dealings or classes of dealings referred to in
        paragraph (mc) to be conducted- that must be recorded or disclosed in
        accordance with the rules of a securities exchange or other system
        specified by the Director, or a method or rules specified by the
        Director;

   (me) enabling the Director to specify a securities exchange or other system
        or a method or rules referred to in paragraphs (mc) and (md);



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   (o)  the assignment of rights under licences, the conditions to which
        assignments are to be subject and the cancellation or suspension of
        such assignments; and

   (oa) prohibiting or regulating smoking in vehicles;



   (p)  generally, all such matters and things as are authorized or permitted
        to be prescribed or are necessary or expedient to be prescribed for
        carrying this Division into effect.

(2) Any regulations made under this section-

   (a)  may be of general or of specially limited application;

   (b)  may differ according to differences in time, place or circumstance;
        and

   (c)  may prescribe penalties of not more than 20 penalty units for any
        breach thereof; and





   (d)  may confer a power or a discretionary authority on a person or body or
        a class of people or bodies; and

   (e)  may apply, adopt or incorporate (with or without modification) any
        matter contained in a document as in force at the time the regulations
        are made or at any time before then; and

   (f)  may provide for the exemption of a specified person, body or thing or
        a specified class of persons, bodies or things from any of the
        provisions of the regulations, whether unconditionally or on specified
        conditions and either wholly or to such an extent as is specified; and

   (g)  may provide that an application may be made to the Tribunal for review
        of a decision made by a specified person in the exercise or purported
        exercise of a power conferred by the regulations.



Division 6-Driver accreditation-commercial passenger vehicles and private bus
services