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PASSENGER TRANSPORT AMENDMENT BILL 2006





                        New South Wales




Passenger Transport Amendment
Bill 2006


Contents

                                                                 Page
           1   Name of Act                                         2
           2   Commencement                                        2
           3   Amendment of Passenger Transport Act 1990 No 39     2
           4   Repeal of Act                                       2
  Schedule 1   Amendments                                          3
I certify that this PUBLIC BILL, which originated in the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,
has finally passed the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL and the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of
NEW SOUTH WALES.


                                                 Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
                                                 Legislative Assembly,
                                                 Sydney,                     , 2006




                             New South Wales




Passenger Transport Amendment
Bill 2006
Act No      , 2006




An Act to amend the Passenger Transport Act 1990 to make further provision with
respect to the accreditation of operators of public passenger services; and for other
purposes.




I have examined this Bill, and find it to correspond in all respects with the Bill
as finally passed by both Houses.


                           Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Assembly.
Clause 1          Passenger Transport Amendment Bill 2006




The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
 1    Name of Act
               This Act is the Passenger Transport Amendment Act 2006.
 2    Commencement
               This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.
 3    Amendment of Passenger Transport Act 1990 No 39
               The Passenger Transport Act 1990 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
 4    Repeal of Act
         (1)   This Act is repealed on the day following the day on which this Act
               commences.
         (2)   The repeal of this Act does not, because of the operation of section 30
               of the Interpretation Act 1987, affect any amendment made by this Act.




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Amendments                                                                Schedule 1




Schedule 1             Amendments
                                                                             (Section 3)
[1]   Section 3 Definitions
      Insert in alphabetical order in section 3 (1):
                    corporation means any incorporated body of the kind referred to
                    in section 5A (1) (c).
[2]   Section 5A
      Insert after section 5:
      5A     Persons who may be accredited
             (1)    For the purposes of this Act, the following are eligible to be
                    accredited to carry on a public passenger service:
                    (a) a single individual,
                    (b) two or more individuals carrying or proposing to carry on
                          the service jointly under a partnership or other agreement
                          or arrangement,
                    (c) a body incorporated by or under the law of this or any other
                          jurisdiction (including the Corporations Act 2001 of the
                          Commonwealth, the Associations Incorporation Act 1984
                          or the Co-operatives Act 1992).
             (2)    If 2 or more individuals are jointly accredited and any one of
                    them dies or ceases to jointly carry on the service:
                     (a) the accreditation is automatically suspended on the
                          expiration of 21 days after the death or cessation if the
                          Director-General has not been notified before that time of
                          the death or cessation, and
                    (b) the accreditation may be cancelled, suspended or varied
                          under this Act because of the death or cessation (whether
                          before or after any such notification).
             (3)    If 2 or more individuals are jointly accredited to carry on a public
                    passenger service, each of those individuals has the obligations
                    imposed on accredited operators of any such service under this
                    Act.
[3]   Schedule 3 Savings and transitional provisions
      Insert at the end of clause 2 (1):
                    Passenger Transport Amendment Act 2006



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Schedule 1      Amendments




[4]   Schedule 3
      Insert at the end of the Schedule with appropriate Part and clause numbers:

      Part         Provisions consequent on enactment of
                   Passenger Transport Amendment Act 2006
             Definition
                   In this Part:
                   the amending Act means the Passenger Transport Amendment
                   Act 2006.
             Validation of accreditation, contracts and other matters
             (1)   This clause applies to:
                   (a) any accreditation purportedly issued or renewed under this
                          Act, or
                   (b) any service contract purportedly entered into under this
                          Act, or
                   (c) any other act or thing purportedly done or omitted under
                          this Act or under any such accreditation or contract,
                   at any time before the commencement of the amending Act.
             (2)   Any such accreditation, contract, act or thing that would have
                   been validly issued, renewed, entered into, done or omitted if the
                   amending Act had been in force at that time is taken to be (and
                   always to have been) validly issued, renewed, entered into, done
                   or omitted.




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