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COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLE INDUSTRY ACT 2017 - SECT 16

Principle of shared responsibility

    (1)     Commercial passenger vehicle safety is the shared responsibility of—

        (a)     owners of motor vehicles used to provide commercial passenger vehicle services; and

        (b)     drivers of motor vehicles used to provide commercial passenger vehicle services; and

        (c)     booking service providers; and

        (d)     persons who have control over the provision of commercial passenger vehicle services; and

        (e)     suppliers of services and equipment to the commercial passenger vehicle industry; and

        (f)     the regulator; and

        (g)     members of the public.

    (2)     The level and nature of responsibility that a person referred to in subsection (1), or a person within a class of persons referred to in subsection (1), has for commercial passenger vehicle safety is dependent on—

        (a)     the nature of the risk to commercial passenger vehicle safety that the person creates from the carrying out of an activity or the making of a decision; and

        (b)     the capacity that that person has to control, eliminate or mitigate that risk or any other risk to commercial passenger vehicle safety.

New s. 17 inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 18.



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