Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Transport (Taxi-Cabs) Regulations 2005 - SECT 29

Passenger routes

29. Passenger routes



(1) The driver of a taxi-cab must take a passenger who has hired the taxi-cab,
or who is attempting to hire the taxi-cab at any time when it is available for
hire, to the place where the passenger wants to be taken, unless the driver
refuses under regulation 36(1) or 41(7) to carry, or to continue to carry, the
passenger.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.



(2) The driver of a taxi-cab must fulfil any agreement that he or she has made
to take, or to cause to be taken, in the taxi-cab any person at any time to or
from any place, unless the driver refuses under regulation 36(1) or 41(7) to
carry, or to continue to carry, the person.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) If the hirer of a taxi-cab does not nominate the route which he or she
wishes to be taken, the driver of the taxi-cab must take the most direct
practicable route from the place where the taxi-cab was hired to the intended
destination of the hirer of the taxi-cab.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(4) If the hirer of a taxi-cab nominates a route to the place where the hirer
wants to be taken, the driver of the taxi-cab must take that route.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.