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TAXI AND LUXURY HIRE CAR INDUSTRIES ACT 2008 (NO. 30 OF 2008) - SECT 14

Failure to pay annual administration fee
(1)  If the owner of a perpetual taxi licence fails to pay the annual administration fee in respect of that licence by the date specified by the Commission –
(a) the licence lapses and the owner of the licence or, if the licence is leased or assigned, the lessee or assignee of the licence has no authority to operate the taxi service provided under the authority of the licence; and
(b) an authorised officer may seize any licence number plate issued in respect of that licence.
(2)  If an authorised officer seizes the licence number plate issued in respect of that licence, that licence number plate is void and the Commission is to cancel that licence number plate.
(3)  If a perpetual taxi licence has lapsed under subsection (1) for a period of 28 days, any licence number plate issued in respect of that licence is void and the Commission is to cancel that licence number plate.
(4)  The responsible operator of a perpetual taxi licence which has lapsed under subsection (1) must not operate a taxi service under the purported authority of that licence or cause or permit another person to operate a taxi service under the purported authority of that licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(5)  The owner of a perpetual taxi licence which has lapsed under subsection (1) must not operate a taxi service under the purported authority of that licence or cause or permit another person to operate a taxi service under the purported authority of that licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(6)  If the owner of a perpetual taxi licence which has lapsed under subsection (1) pays the annual administration fee in relation to the lapsed licence, the Commission is to reinstate the authority to operate the taxi service provided under the authority of the lapsed licence as soon as practicable.
(7)  If –
(a) an authorised officer has seized the licence number plate issued in respect of the lapsed licence; or
(b) the Commission has cancelled the licence number plate issued in respect of the lapsed licence –
and the owner of the licence subsequently pays the annual administration fee in respect of that licence, the Commission, as soon as practicable after payment of the prescribed fee, is to issue a replacement licence number plate to the owner of the licence.
(8)  It is a defence in proceedings under subsection (4) for the responsible operator to show that he or she did not know or could not reasonably have known that the licence had lapsed under subsection (1) .
(9)  If the owner of a perpetual taxi licence has not paid an annual administration fee in respect of that licence imposed in accordance with regulations made under the repealed Act before the commencement of this section, the Commission, by notice in writing given to the owner of that licence, is to require payment of that fee by the date specified in the notice.
(10)  If the owner of a perpetual taxi licence does not pay the fee to the Commission by the date specified in the notice, this section applies to the licence as if it had lapsed under subsection (1) .



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