Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES) REGULATIONS 2002 (2002 NO 3) - REG 35

(ACT Bus reg 10, NSW Bus cl 14 (1), (5))

    (1)     A bus driver must stop the bus and drop off a passenger at a bus stop if the passenger indicates to the driver that the passenger wishes to get off the bus at the bus stop.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

    (2)     A bus driver must stop the bus and pick up a person at a bus stop if the person indicates to the driver that the person wishes to get on the bus at the bus stop.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

    (3)     Despite subregulations (1) and (2), the bus driver may refuse to stop the bus or pick up a person if—

        (a)     the driver would contravene regulation 37 (Maximum number of passengers in buses) or regulation 39 (Carriage of goods in buses) if the driver picked up the person; or

        (b)     the person is a person mentioned in regulation 63 (Bus passengers—soiled clothing etc) or regulation 64 (Intoxicated bus passengers).

    (4)     This regulation does not, by implication, require a bus driver to
pick up and drop off passengers only at bus stops.