Western Australian Current Acts

TRANSPORT (ROAD PASSENGER SERVICES) ACT 2018 - SECT 19

19 .         Primary duty of care of drivers of vehicles used to transport passengers for hire or reward

                The driver of a vehicle must, while the vehicle is being used for the purpose of transporting passengers for hire or reward —

            (a)         ensure their own health and safety; and

            (b)         ensure that their own acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons; and

            (c)         if the vehicle is being used in providing an on-demand passenger transport service, comply, so far as the driver is reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction that is given by the person providing the on-demand booking service for the on-demand passenger transport service to enable that person to comply with this Act; and

            (d)         if the vehicle is being used in providing a passenger transport service, comply, so far as the driver is reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction that is given by the person providing the passenger transport service or the passenger transport vehicle to enable that person to comply with this Act.