148YMeaning of “operates a micromobility vehicle sharing service”

148Y Meaning of “operates a micromobility vehicle sharing service”

148Y Meaning of “operates a micromobility vehicle sharing service”

(1) In this part, a person operates a micromobility vehicle sharing service if—

(a) the person makes a micromobility vehicle available for hire by another person (the hirer) through a wholly or partly automated electronic system, and

(b) at the start of the period of hire, the hirer is to collect the micromobility vehicle from wherever the vehicle is located, and

(c) at the end of the period of hire, the hirer is not required to return the micromobility vehicle to—

(i) the place or premises from which the vehicle was collected at the start of the period of hire, or

(ii) a specific place or premises agreed to at the time the vehicle was hired or collected.

(2) A person operates a micromobility vehicle sharing service in an authority’s area of operations if a micromobility vehicle that is available for hire in accordance with subsection (1) is—

(a) available to be collected by a hirer from a place within the authority’s area of operations at the start of the period of hire, or

(b) able to be returned by a hirer to a place within the authority’s area of operations at the end of the period of hire.

(3) A person does not operate a micromobility vehicle sharing service in an authority’s area of operations because a hirer of a micromobility vehicle uses the vehicle in the authority’s area of operations during the period of hire.

s 148Y: Ins 2025 No 77 Sch 1[2].