Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Transport (Taxi-Cabs) Regulations 2005 - SECT 42

Request for driver to return or wait

42. Request for driver to return or wait



(1) The driver of a taxi-cab who is requested by a passenger to discharge the
passenger and to return to the passenger at a later time must not make any
charge for the time between the discharge and the time at which the driver was
requested to return.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) The driver of a taxi-cab who is requested to return under subregulation
(1) may charge a detention rate set out in the conditions of the licence under
which the taxi-cab is operated from the time at which the driver was requested
to return.

(3) The driver of a taxi-cab who is requested to return under subregulation
(1) may refuse the request.

(4) The driver of a taxi-cab must not refuse the request of a passenger who
has left the taxi-cab with the stated intention to return, to wait the return
of the passenger unless-

   (a)  the driver has earlier contracted another hiring; or



   (b)  the driver would be in breach of an Act, a Regulation or a local law
        if he or she were to wait.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.