79BCourt order for payment of annual fee

79B Court order for payment of annual fee (1) If: (a) a person operates, or causes or employs another person to drive or operate, a motor vehicle for the purpose of the carriage of passengers for hire or reward as if the person held a licence to operate the motor vehicle as a commercial passenger vehicle of a particular class; and (b) a court finds the person guilty of an offence in that respect, the court must order the person to pay to the Director an amount equal to the prescribed annual fee that the person would have been required to pay for a licence in respect of a commercial passenger vehicle of that class. (2) If: (a) a person operates a commercial passenger vehicle in contravention of this Act as if it were of another class of commercial passenger vehicle; and (b) a court finds the person guilty of an offence in that respect, the court must order the person to pay to the Director an amount equal to the prescribed annual fee that the person would have been required to pay for a licence in respect of a commercial passenger vehicle of that other class. (3) An order made under this section is in addition to the imposition of the penalty prescribed for the relevant offence.

Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 61