Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this Part
unless the contrary intention appears —
control area means a control area under the Taxi
Act 1994 ;
district means an area that has been declared to
be a district under the Local Government Act 1995 ;
operate , as applied to a taxi-car,
means —
(a) to
drive; or
(b) to
permit, cause or employ another person to drive,
that taxi-car; and cognate expressions shall be
construed accordingly;
owner , as applied to a taxi-car, means a person
being the sole, part or joint owner of the vehicle and includes a person
having the use of the vehicle under an agreement for its hire, lease or loan
under a hire purchase agreement and also includes a person repossessing or
purporting to repossess, the vehicle under any such agreement;
subsection means a subsection of the section
wherein the term is used;
taxi-car means a vehicle that is used for the
purpose of standing or plying for hire or otherwise for the carrying of
passengers for reward;
taxi-stand means a position or group of positions
set apart by a competent authority, by means of a sign on or near a road, for
the standing of disengaged taxi-cars.
(2) In this Part
unless the contrary intention appears a reference to this Part includes a
reference to the regulations made under this Part.
(3) For the purposes
of this Part, the term carrying of passengers for reward includes any case
where the owner or driver of the vehicle used —
(a)
offers that carriage as an inducement in respect of an agreement for the
provision of other services or goods; or
(b)
receives any consideration in respect of an arrangement whereby that carriage
is effected or to which that carriage is related.
(4) For the purposes
of this Part, the carrying of passengers —
(a) into
a district from a place outside that district; or
(b) from
within a district to a place outside the district on the return journey by a
direct route to the place from which the passengers were brought into the
district,
shall not be taken as
operating within the district.
(5) For the purposes
of section 49 in relation to this Part, the term owner in that section
shall have the meaning that it has for the purposes of this Part.
[Section 47Z inserted by No. 70 of 1981
s. 3; amended by No. 30 of 1985 s. 10; No. 83 of 1994
s. 49; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 55 of 2004 s. 1230.]