Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The Governor may make
regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act
to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving
effect to the purposes of this Act and in particular —
(a)
prescribing parts of the State as control areas for the purposes of this Act;
(b)
prescribing classes of taxis by reference to restrictions on the manner in
which or the purposes for which taxis of those classes may be operated;
(c)
prescribing the number of any particular class of taxi plates which may be
issued per 1 000 head of population in a control area or part of a
control area;
(d)
prescribing offences and modified penalties for the purposes of
section 39;
(e)
prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act;
(f)
relating to, and prescribing fees for the re-issue of, taxi plates which have
been lost, damaged or stolen;
(g)
prescribing matters with respect to which conditions may be imposed under
section 20(1) or 29(1);
(h)
regulating the conduct and behaviour of taxi drivers in relation to the
provision of taxi services;
(i)
regulating the conduct and behaviour of passengers in
taxis;
(j)
prohibiting taxi drivers from refusing to accept any approved voucher or
credit arrangement as payment or part-payment of a fare;
(k)
regulating the circumstances under which a driver may refuse to accept a
passenger or may terminate a hiring;
(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, 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 —
(i)
there to be added to the amount that would otherwise be
payable as the modified penalty under an infringement notice given under
section 39 for an offence referred to in paragraph (ka), the amount
of the fare that the hirer failed to pay;
(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 modified penalty;
(l) with
respect to the calculation and payment of fares and charges and the operation
of fare schedules;
(m) with
respect to the equipment, including meters, required to be carried on or
installed in a taxi and with respect to the examination or testing of such
equipment;
(n)
prescribing notices, information and other material which must, and such
material which must not, be carried or displayed in taxis.
[Section 40 amended by No. 44 of 1998
s. 4.]