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Road Transport (Public Passenger Services) Act 2001
44Regulations about taxi licences
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44 Regulations about taxi licences
(1) A regulation may provide a system for the licensing of taxis and
restricted taxis, including, for example—
(a) matters relating to the giving, refusal or surrender of licences;
and
(b) the term (if any) of taxi licences; and
(c) the conditions of licences; and
(d) the circumstances in which a substitute vehicle may be used as
a licensed taxi; and
(e) the action that may be taken in relation to licences in
circumstances prescribed by regulation, including—
(iii) an order that the holder of a licence pay to the Territory an
(iv) the reprimanding of the holder of a licence.
Examples of conditions for restricted taxi licences—s (1) (c)
1 how the vehicle to which the restricted taxi licence relates must be equipped
2 the kinds of restricted taxi services that may be operated using the vehicle
(2) The regulations may place different requirements on the person to
whom a taxi licence (other than a restricted taxi licence) is issued and
a person to whom the licence is hired.
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