Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991
86Acquisition on just terms
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86 Acquisition on just terms If the operation of this Act would, apart from this section, result in an acquisition of property from a person otherwise than on just terms: (a) the person is entitled to receive from the Territory the compensation necessary to ensure the acquisition is on just terms; and (b) a court of competent jurisdiction may decide the amount of compensation or make the orders it considers necessary to ensure the acquisition is on just terms. 86A Approved forms The Director may approve forms for this Act. 86B Approved standards The Director may approve standards for this Act. 87 Regulations The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters: (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and, in particular: (c) prescribing the conditions to apply to and in relation to accreditation or to licences;
Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 64 (d) regulating all matters relating to the transport of passengers for hire or reward by commercial passenger vehicles and all matters relating to those vehicles and including accreditation and licensing; (e) prescribing fees or charges for, or levies to be imposed in relation to, any matter or thing done or to be done in connection with this Act, or authorising the Director to fix any fees, charges or levies in respect of prescribed matters; (ea) providing for matters in relation to the inspection or testing of commercial passenger vehicles, including the appointment of persons to carry out inspections or tests; (eb) authorising the Director to exempt a person or vehicle, or a class of persons or vehicles, from the operation of the regulations or a specified provision of the regulations; (f) prescribing the qualifications required for persons working on or in relation to a commercial passenger vehicle; (g) regulating, restricting or prohibiting the form, construction and equipment of a commercial passenger vehicle; (h) providing for a taxi licence to be used as security for a loan or liability; (j) prescribing infringement offences and infringement fees; (k) relating to the behaviour, rights and obligations of passengers, drivers and operators of commercial passenger vehicles; (m) providing for the collection, holding and disposal of property left, lost or abandoned by persons using commercial passenger vehicles; or (n) prescribing offences in respect of contravention of or non-compliance with any regulations made under this Act or any notice, requirement or direction given pursuant to any such regulations, and prescribing maximum penalties of 85 penalty units in respect of any offence.
Division 1 Transitional matters for Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 65 Division 1 Transitional matters for Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 88 Savings and transitional (1) Any regulations made under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 which relate to commercial passenger vehicles, the use of commercial passenger vehicles as security for loans, or to persons who operate or work on or in relation to commercial passenger vehicles, being regulations which, on the commencement of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 1991, could probably be no longer made under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949, shall: (a) continue to exist as regulations under this Act; and (b) be capable of being amended or repealed by regulations made under this Act. (2) Where a reference in a regulation saved under subsection (1) is to a provision in the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 that has been repealed by the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 1991, that reference shall be construed, where possible, as a reference to an appropriate or relevant provision in this Act. (3) An action, prosecution or other proceeding begun under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be continued as if this Act had never commenced, and an action, prosecution or other proceeding in respect of a thing done or omitted to be done under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 as then in force before the commencement of this Act may be brought, taken and prosecuted in the same manner as if this Act had never commenced. (4) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person had under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 as then in force a licence, certificate or other authority relating to the use, possession or operation of a commercial passenger vehicle, that person is, on the commencement of this Act, authorised to use, possess or operate the commercial passenger vehicle until such time as the licence, certificate or other authority would otherwise have expired under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949. (5) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a person or body corporate had under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949 as then in force a public hire car licence, the person or body corporate may be granted a taxi licence on the expiration of the public hire car licence in accordance with subsection (4)