4Meaning of *commercial passenger vehicle service*

4 Meaning of *commercial passenger vehicle service*

(1) A commercial passenger vehicle service is the carriage, for a fare or other consideration, of one or more passengers in a motor vehicle on a journey that begins in Victoria and ends at one or more destinations (whether in or outside Victoria).

(2) Each of the following activities is also a commercial passenger vehicle service—

(a) doing either of the following things while being available to provide the service referred to in subsection (1)—

(i) driving a motor vehicle;

(ii) being in charge of a motor vehicle;

(b) driving a motor vehicle to collect a passenger referred to in subsection (1).

(3) None of the following things is a commercial passenger vehicle service—

(a) a charitable passenger service;

(b) a vehicle pooling service;

(c) driving a motor vehicle while being available to provide a charitable passenger service or a vehicle pooling service;

(d) driving a motor vehicle to collect a passenger for a charitable passenger service or a vehicle pooling service;

(e) the driving of a vehicle operated by or on behalf of and under the control of—

(i) an ambulance service created under section 23 of the Ambulance Services Act 1986 or listed in Schedule 1 to that Act; or

(ii) an ambulance service created under a law in force in another State or in a Territory of the Commonwealth;

S. 4(3)(f) amended by No. 29/2021 s. 35.

(f) the driving of a motor vehicle for the purposes of a non-emergency patient transport service (within the meaning of the Non-Emergency Patient Transport and First Aid Services Act 2003).

S. 3B inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 8, renumbered as s. 5 by No. 63/2017 s. 14.