1Purposes

1 Purposes

The main purposes of this Act are—

(a) to provide for a new regulatory framework for the regulation of the commercial passenger vehicle industry in Victoria, including—

(i) new safety duties for commercial passenger vehicle industry participants; and

(ii) registration schemes for commercial passenger vehicles and booking service providers; and

(iii) an accreditation scheme for drivers of commercial passenger vehicles; and

(iv) certain protections for—

(A) consumers of commercial passenger vehicle services; and

(B) drivers of commercial passenger vehicles; and

(b) to impose a levy on the carrying out of commercial passenger vehicle service transactions—

(i) to recover the cost of transitional assistance provided to certain participants in the commercial passenger vehicle industry; and

(ii) to partly fund the regulation of the commercial passenger vehicle industry.