Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations(1) A taxi driver—
(a) must not fail to carry out promptly any hiring accepted; and
(b) must drive the taxi by the shortest practicable route to any place stated by the hirer that is within the taxi's area of operations, unless the hirer asks that the taxi be driven to the place by another route.
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(2) The hirer of a taxi may, at any time during the hiring, direct the driver to carry the hirer to a place within the taxi's area of operations (the new destination ), even if that place was not originally stated.
(3) A taxi driver must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a direction under subregulation (2).
Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.
(4) However, a taxi driver is not required to comply with a direction made under subregulation (2) if, when asked, the hirer does not pay the fare deposit for the journey to the new destination.
(5) A taxi driver may refuse to stop the taxi at a place where stopping the taxi would be unlawful or, in the driver's opinion, unsafe.