New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PASSENGER TRANSPORT (BUS SERVICES) REGULATION 2000 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Approved security camera systems

(Clause 12D)

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:
"authorised purpose", in relation to the use of a video recording made by a security camera system, means the purpose of, or any purpose in connection with, any of the following:

(a) the prosecution of, or the issue of a penalty notice in respect of, an offence committed in or about a bus,

(b) ensuring an operator's compliance with the operator's conditions of accreditation,

(c) ensuring a driver's compliance with the driver's conditions of authorisation,

(d) ensuring a passenger's compliance with any approved scheme of subsidised travel (as referred to in section 39 of the Transport Administration Act 1988 ).

(a) any electronically stored information from which a recorded image can be generated, and

(b) any print-out or other reproduction of the recorded image.

2 Use of recording for unauthorised purpose

A person must not use a video recording made by a security camera system for a purpose other than an authorised purpose.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

3 Presence of camera in bus to be indicated

The operator of a bus service must ensure that signs are conspicuously placed within and on the outside of a bus that is fitted with a security camera system, advising persons that they may be under video surveillance while in or about the bus.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

4 Storage of recordings made by security camera

(1) The operator of a bus service must cause:

(a) such security safeguards as the Director-General may specify, and

(b) such other security safeguards as are reasonable in the circumstances,

to be taken, to ensure that any video recordings made by a security camera system are protected against misplacement and against use for unauthorised purposes, until disposed of in accordance with clause 5.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) The Director-General may, by notice in writing to the operator of a bus service, specify reasonable security safeguards for the purposes of subclause (1) (a).

5 Disposal of recordings made by security camera

(1) The operator of a bus service must cause any video recording made by a security camera system to be disposed of in accordance with subclause (2) within 30 days after the recording was made.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) The recording may be disposed of by destroying it by deletion or otherwise or, if it is to be used for an authorised purpose, by giving it to:

(a) a police officer, or

(b) an officer of the Ministry of Transport authorised by the Director-General to receive it.

(3) It is the duty of the Commissioner of Police or the Director-General (as the case requires) to ensure the destruction of any video recording that was given to a police officer or to an officer of the Ministry of Transport but which is no longer to be used for an authorised purpose.

(4) Subclause (1) does not apply in respect of a video recording made during the installation or testing of the security camera.