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COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLE INDUSTRY ACT 2017 - SECT 4

Meaning of commercial passenger vehicle service

    (1)     A commercial passenger vehicle service is the carriage, for a fare or other consideration, of one or more passengers in a motor vehicle on a journey that begins in Victoria and ends at one or more destinations (whether in or outside Victoria).

    (2)     Each of the following activities is also a commercial passenger vehicle service

        (a)     doing either of the following things while being available to provide the service referred to in subsection (1)—

              (i)     driving a motor vehicle;

              (ii)     being in charge of a motor vehicle;

        (b)     driving a motor vehicle to collect a passenger referred to in subsection (1).

    (3)     None of the following things is a commercial passenger vehicle service

        (a)     a charitable passenger service;

        (b)     a vehicle pooling service;

        (c)     driving a motor vehicle while being available to provide a charitable passenger service or a vehicle pooling service;

        (d)     driving a motor vehicle to collect a passenger for a charitable passenger service or a vehicle pooling service;

        (e)     the driving of a vehicle operated by or on behalf of and under the control of—

              (i)     an ambulance service created under section 23 of the Ambulance Services Act 1986 or listed in Schedule 1 to that Act; or

              (ii)     an ambulance service created under a law in force in another State or in a Territory of the Commonwealth;

S. 4(3)(f) amended by No. 29/2021 s. 35.

        (f)     the driving of a motor vehicle for the purposes of a non-emergency patient transport service (within the meaning of the  Non-Emergency Patient Transport and First Aid Services Act 2003 ).

S. 3B inserted by No. 63/2017 s. 8, renumbered as s. 5 by No. 63/2017 s. 14.



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