55Offence to accept request from unregistered booking service provider

55 Offence to accept request from unregistered booking service provider

(1) A person commits an offence if—

(a) the person accepts a request from a booking service provider for a person to be provided with a commercial passenger vehicle service; and

(b) the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the provider—

(i) is not registered under this Part; and

(ii) is not exempted under the regulations from the requirement to be registered under this Part.

(2) A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable to—

(a) for a person who is a booking service provider, a penalty not exceeding 240 penalty units for an individual or 1200 penalty units for a body corporate; and

(b) for a person who is an accredited driver, a penalty not exceeding 60 penalty units; and

(c) in any other case, a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units.

New s. 56 inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 18.