140Sharing taxis

140 Sharing taxis (1) This section applies if, at the beginning of, or during, a hiring of a taxi, the hirer requires the driver— (a) to allow other people (the hirer’s guests) to share the taxi with the hirer; and (b) to drive the hirer’s guests to a destination other than the hirer’s destination before driving the hirer to his or her destination. (2) The taxi driver must comply with a requirement under subsection (1). (3) However, if the requirement is made during a hiring, the taxi driver need not comply with the requirement if— (a) when asked by the driver, the hirer does not pay a fare deposit for the estimated fare for the hiring; or (b) the destination of the hirer’s guests is outside the ACT region. Note 1 ACT region—see s 221N. Note 2 A hiring may be refused if the destination is outside the ACT region (see s 129 (3) (c)). (4) The taxi driver must not ask for payment of all or part of the fare from any of the hirer’s guests.