90ATaxi areas and remote taxi areas

90A Taxi areas and remote taxi areas

[Section 90A Inserted by No. 28 of 2020, s. 58, Applied:30 Dec 2020]

(1)  The regulations may from time to time, for the purposes of this Act, prescribe taxi areas and remote taxi areas by way of a description or one or more maps.

(2)  The Commission must cause to be established and maintained a database containing data from which there may be generated –

(a) one or more electronic maps setting out each of the taxi areas, and remote taxi areas, that are in effect for the time being, being those areas as prescribed from time to time under subsection (1) but with the boundaries of those areas indicated with greater particularity; and

(b) one or more electronic maps –

(i) setting out each of the taxi areas, and remote taxi areas, that were, but are no longer, in effect; and

(ii) indicating the period during which those taxi areas and remote taxi areas were, but are no longer, in effect.

(3)  The Commission must cause the electronic maps referred to in subsection (2) to be generated each time there is an alteration, of the data in the database referred to in subsection (2) , that has the effect of altering the boundaries of a taxi area, or remote taxi area, on a map that may be generated from the data.

(4)  The Commission must ensure that members of the public are able to view electronically, at a website of the Department, each of the electronic maps that is generated from time to time under subsection (3) .

(5)  The Commission, before generating under subsection (3) an electronic map after an alteration, of the data in the database referred to in subsection (2) , that will have the effect of altering the boundaries of a taxi area, or remote taxi area, on the map –

(a) must ensure that there is published in the Gazette a notice –

(i) stating that an alteration of the boundaries of the taxi area, or remote taxi area, will come into effect on the day specified in the notice; and