Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to this
regulation the driver of a taxi‑car shall not fail to carry out any
hiring accepted, or refuse a hiring where it is lawful for him to accept it.
(2) A driver is not
obliged to accept a hiring where —
(a) the
intending hirer or an intending passenger is intoxicated, unclean, abusive or
violent;
(b) the
driver has reasonable grounds to believe that —
(i)
the intending hirer or an intending passenger, or the
point of engagement or the destination, poses a threat to the driver’s
safety;
(ii)
the hiring would result in a breach of a condition
imposed by the Director General under section 47ZD(3) of the Act on the
operation of the taxi‑car; or
(iii)
the intending hirer or an intending passenger has evaded,
or attempted to evade, the payment of a fare or charge for hiring a
taxi‑car;
(c) the
driver requires the intending hirer to pay a deposit under the Country
Taxi‑cars (Fares and Charges) Regulations 1991 regulation 4A
and the intending hirer does not pay it; or
(d) the
number of intending passengers aged 12 or over exceeds the number of
available seatbelts in the taxi‑car.
(3) If, during a
hiring, a passenger begins to soil the taxi‑car or become abusive or
violent —
(a) the
driver may terminate the hiring;
(b) the
driver or an authorised officer may request all passengers to alight from the
taxi‑car; and
(c) the
driver may require the hirer to pay —
(i)
the fare that would have been due if the hiring had
terminated at that point in the normal course of events; and
(ii)
in the case of soiling, a charge to cover the cost of
cleaning the taxi‑car, as set out in the Country Taxi‑cars (Fares
and Charges) Regulations 1991 Schedule 1.
(4) A passenger who
fails to alight from a taxi‑car when requested to do so under
subregulation (3)(b) commits an offence.
[Regulation 26 inserted in Gazette
8 Aug 1986 p. 2827; amended in Gazette 14 Jul 2006
p. 2576‑7.]