Victorian Current Acts

COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLE INDUSTRY ACT 2017 - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to provide for a new regulatory framework for the regulation of the commercial passenger vehicle industry in Victoria, including—

              (i)     new safety duties for commercial passenger vehicle industry participants; and

              (ii)     registration schemes for commercial passenger vehicles and booking service providers; and

              (iii)     an accreditation scheme for drivers of commercial passenger vehicles; and

              (iv)     certain protections for—

    (A)     consumers of commercial passenger vehicle services; and

    (B)     drivers of commercial passenger vehicles; and

        (b)     to impose a levy on the carrying out of commercial passenger vehicle service transactions—

              (i)     to recover the cost of transitional assistance provided to certain participants in the commercial passenger vehicle industry; and

              (ii)     to partly fund the regulation of the commercial passenger vehicle industry.