Motor Taxi Amendment Regulations 2008
MOTOR TAXI AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2008


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BR 52/2008

MOTOR CAR ACT 1951

1951 : 47

MOTOR TAXI AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2008




The Minister responsible for Transport, in exercise of the powers
conferred under sections 37, 102 and 103 of the Motor Car Act 1951,
makes the following regulations:

Citation
1 These Regulations may be cited as the Motor Taxi Amendment
Regulations 2008.

Substitutes regulation 17
2 Regulation 17 of the Motor Taxi Regulations 1952 is revoked and
the following regulation is substituted —

“Keeping of records
17 (1) Every person operating a taxi despatching service and
every taxi operator shall maintain a record of information which
shall include —

(a) the total number of motor taxis using the mobile
data terminals daily;

(b) the average number of trips made by each motor
taxi per day;

(c) the average number of hours each motor taxi
works per day;

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(d) the number of calls requesting a motor taxi
received by a despatching service each day;

(e) the number of calls sent by a despatching service
to motor taxis to request the use of a motor taxi;
and

(f) the most frequent pick up locations.

(2) Records that are gathered from mobile data terminals
shall be stored by means of computer and sent by the operator of
a despatching service to the Transport Control Department in
electronic spreadsheet or in such other format as the Minister
may determine, not later than 7 days after the end of each
month or upon request by the Transport Control Department.

(3) Records that are required to be maintained under this
regulation by the operator of a taxi despatching service and the
taxi operator shall be retained for at least six months.”.

Amends regulation 18
3 Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended by
deleting “agency” and substituting “service”.







Made this 12th day of August, 2008







Premier