Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This section
applies to any district other than a district in respect of which the Minister
has published a notice under subsection (6).
(2) Notwithstanding
this Part, the Minister shall not issue a taxi-car licence in a district to
which this section applies without having first obtained the approval of the
local government or local governments of the district or districts in which
the vehicle is to be operated as a taxi-car.
(3) The local
government of a district to which this section applies may, with the approval
of the Governor, make local laws regulating the fares for, and the driving and
operation of, taxi-cars in its district and imposing penalties not exceeding
$200 for any breach thereof.
(4) Where there is any
inconsistency between the regulations and any local law made or preserved
pursuant to this section, the regulations shall prevail and the local law
shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be of no effect.
(5) Any by-laws made
or continued under section 111 of the Road Traffic Act 1974 shall
continue in force, but may be amended or repealed, as if they were local laws
made under subsection (3).
(6) The Minister may,
at the request of a local government, by notice published in the Government
Gazette , declare that this section does not apply to a district specified in
the notice, from a date specified in the notice or from the date of
publication of the notice, and such a notice when so published is irrevocable.
(7) Where a notice is
published pursuant to subsection (6) any local laws made by the local
government of the district specified in the notice shall, by force of the
notice, be deemed to be repealed on a date specified in the notice or on the
date of publication of the notice.
[Section 47ZG inserted by No. 70 of 1981
s. 3; amended by No. 54 of 1985 s. 52; No. 14 of 1996
s. 4.]