56Pre-payment scheme for taxi fares

56 Pre-payment scheme for taxi fares

56 Pre-payment scheme for taxi fares

(1) The pre-payment scheme set out in this clause does not apply to a hiring that results from a booking.

(2) The driver of a taxi may, before a hiring starts or at any time during a hiring, require the hirer to pay a deposit of not more than an amount equal to the driver’s reasonable estimate of the authorised fare for the proposed journey or the agreed fare (if the driver and passenger have agreed the fare is to be less than the authorised fare).

(3) A driver who receives payment of a deposit under this clause must, on the request of the hirer, give the hirer a receipt for the deposit.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(4) A driver who receives payment of a deposit based on an estimate of the authorised fare under this clause must, on the termination of the hiring (or on the hirer leaving the taxi in compliance with a direction to do so), refund to the hirer any amount by which the deposit exceeds the authorised fare for the journey.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(5) After the termination of a hiring (or on leaving the taxi in compliance with a direction to do so), a hirer who paid a deposit based on an estimate of the authorised fare under this clause must pay to the driver of the taxi the amount (if any) by which the authorised fare exceeds the deposit.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(6) This clause does not apply if the fare is subject to payment using the Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme administered by TfNSW.