72Prohibition on leasing luxury hire car licence

72 Prohibition on leasing luxury hire car licence

[Section 72 Substituted by No. 61 of 2011, s. 40, Applied:01 Jul 2013]

(1)  A luxury hire car licence is not capable of being leased and any agreement purporting to do so is, to that extent, void and unenforceable.

(2)  If the Commission is satisfied that the holder of a luxury hire car licence has entered into an agreement purporting to lease the licence to another person or an agreement purporting to permit another person to operate a luxury hire car service under the authority of the licence, the Commission is to cancel the licence in accordance with section 82 .

(3)  A person who in any capacity enters into an agreement of a kind referred to in subsection (2) is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.

(4)  In this section –

agreement means an oral or written agreement.