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Western Australia
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
(As amended in Committee)
Taxi Amendment Bill 1998
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Taxi Act 1994.
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Taxi Amendment Act 1998.
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2. Commencement
(1) Except as stated in subsections (2) and (3), this Act comes into
operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Section 4 comes into operation on the 28th day after the day on
5 which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(3) Section 5 is deemed to have come into operation immediately
after the commencement of the principal Act.
3. Principal Act
In this Act the Taxi Act 1994* is referred to as the principal Act.
10 [* Act No. 83 of 1994.
For subsequent amendments see 1997 Index to Legislation of
Western Australia, Table 1, p. 230.]
4. Section 40 amended
Section 40 of the principal Act is amended by inserting after
15 paragraph (k) the following paragraphs --
"
(ka) providing that the hirer of a taxi who is obliged
to pay for carriage in the taxi any fare that is in
accordance with this Act commits an offence if,
20 in prescribed circumstances, the hirer fails to
pay the fare, and prescribing a fine of not more
than $1 000 that may be imposed for the
commission of the offence;
(kb) providing for --
25 (i) there to be added to the amount that
would otherwise be payable as the
modified penalty under an infringement
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notice given under section 39 for an
offence referred to in paragraph (ka),
the amount of the fare that the hirer
failed to pay;
5 (ii) the payment to the person entitled to the
fare that the hirer failed to pay, towards
the discharge of that entitlement, of so
much of the amount added as is
recovered through payment of the
10 modified penalty;
".
5. Section 41 amended
Section 41(2)(f) of the principal Act is amended by inserting
before "any other moneys" the following --
15 "
income derived from moneys standing to the credit of
the Fund and
".
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