Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Subject to the
provisions of this Division, the Minister may (with or without variation)
grant, or may refuse, the application.
(2) The Minister
may —
(a)
appoint stopping places at which passengers may be picked up or set down; and
(b)
direct that passengers be not picked up or set down, other than at a stopping
place, or stopping places so appointed,
on any route or a
section of the route, for which he has granted an omnibus licence.
(2a) In addition to
the powers conferred on the Minister under subsection (2), the Minister
may grant a licence in respect of the operation of a vehicle on a particular
route on the condition that the crew of any vehicle operated by virtue of the
licence shall disembark from the vehicle at such places on the route as are
specified in the licence and shall be replaced by other crew who shall embark
on the vehicle only at the places so specified.
(3) Notwithstanding
the provisions of any other Act, the Minister may erect or cause to be erected
at a stopping place appointed pursuant to
subsection (2) —
(a) any
sign indicating and identifying the stopping place; and
(b)
shelters of such design and construction as he thinks fit,
but before erecting or
causing the erection of any sign or shelter authorised by this subsection, the
Minister shall cause the Director General to confer with the local government
concerned on the matter, and if agreement cannot be reached on the location,
size and type of sign or shelter the matter shall be determined by the
Minister and the Minister charged with the administration of the
Local Government Act 1995 or the Minister administering the
Main Roads Act 1930 , as the case may require.
(4) A local government
shall, if so required by the Minister, appoint within its district such stands
for omnibuses as may be mutually agreed by the Minister and the local
government and, in the event of their failure to reach agreement, the matter
shall be resolved in the manner provided by subsection (3) for the
resolving of matters in dispute.
(5) In this section,
the term local government includes the Commissioner of Main Roads, where the
section applies to any part of the Metropolitan Traffic Area, within the
meaning of the Road Traffic Act 1974 .
[Section 27 amended by No. 30 of 1985
s. 7; No. 54 of 1985 s. 26 and 52; No. 14 of 1996
s. 4; No. 24 of 2000 s. 43(2).]