Victorian Numbered Regulations

TRANSPORT (BUSES, TAXI-CABS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLES) (TAXI-CAB INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION AND OTHER MATTERS) REGULATIONS 2017 (SR NO 50 OF 2017) - REG 17

    (1)     The driver of a commercial passenger vehicle must accept an animal for carriage in that vehicle if—

        (a)     the animal is an assistance animal; and

        (b)     the animal is accompanied by a hirer of the commercial passenger vehicle.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     In this regulation—

"assistance animal" has the same meaning as it has in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.