AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MOTOR TRAFFIC ORDINANCE 1936-1972

TAXI AND PRIVATE HIRE CAR REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 4 of 1972

	The proposed amendments of the Taxi and Private Hire Car Regulations will –
	(a)	increase the flag-fall or hiring charge where a taxi is not required to travel outside the City Area from twenty cents to twenty-two cents;
	(b)	increase the mileage rate where a taxi is not required to travel outside the City Area from twenty cents to twenty-five cents for each mile travelled;
	(c)	increase the maximum fare where a taxi is required to travel outside the City Area from fourteen cents to sixteen cents for each mile which would have been travelled if the journey had commenced at the public stand nearest to which the taxi is when the hiring is made and had ended at the public stand nearest to the place at which the hiring is terminated;
	(d)	increase the maximum fare for a journey by a taxi where the journey commences in the Jervis Bay Territory from fourteen cents to sixteen cents for each mile which would have been travelled if the journey had commenced at the place where the taxi is usually garaged and had ended back at that place; and
	(e)	increase the charge which may be made where a taxi is required to wait for a period either before, during or after the end of a journey from twenty-five cents to thirty cents for each six minutes that the taxi is required to wait.