New Zealand Legislation: Acts

199A Register of transport service licences

• (1) The Agency must continue and maintain the register of transport service licences that was established under section 29 of the Transport Services Licensing Act 1989.

  (2) The register must show for each licence the following information:

  • (a) the holder's full name:

  • (b) if the holder is a natural person, the holder's date of birth:

  • (c) the holder's business or residential address:

  • (d) the full name and address of any person in control:

  • (e) the number of the licence:

  • (f) the date of issue of the licence:

  • (g) the class or classes of transport services to which the licence applies:

  • (h) information about any operator safety rating, or other similar information, specified in the regulations or the rules:

  • (i) any conditions applying to the licence:

  • (j) information about any revocation, suspension, or surrender:

  • (k) information about any order of disqualification made against the holder of the licence under this Act or any former enactment:

  • (l) information about any order removing a disqualification imposed on the holder under this Act or any former enactment:

  • (m) the dates of any amendments to the licence.

  (3) The register of transport service licences must also show the following information for an approved taxi organisation:

  • (a) the full name of the approved taxi organisation; and

  • (b) the business address of the approved taxi organisation; and

  • (c) the telephone number by which the services of the approved taxi organisation may be booked; and

  • (d) the full names of the responsible officers of the approved taxi organisation; and

  • (e) the date of approval; and

  • (f) the status of the approval; and

  • (g) the safety rating (if any) of the approved taxi organisation.

  (4) A person who applies to the Agency and pays the prescribed fee (if any)—

  • (a) is, with the consent of the holder of the transport service licence named in the application, entitled to the information stored in the register in respect of the licence holder; but

  • (b) is, without the consent of the holder of the transport service licence named in the application, entitled only to the information stored in the register in respect of the licence holder that is—

    • (i) specified in subsection (2)(a) and (g) to (l); and

    • (ii) in the case of an approved taxi organisation, specified in subsection (3)(a) to (c) and (e) to (g).

  (5) An application under subsection (4)—

  • (a) may be made in writing or electronically or orally; and

  • (b) must describe the person named with sufficient particularity to enable the Agency to identify the person and the licences concerned.

  (6) Information requested under subsection (4) may be given in writing or electronically or orally.

  Compare: 1989 No 74 s 29

  Section 199A: inserted, on 1 October 2007, by section 83 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).

  Section 199A(1): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).

  Section 199A(4): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).

  Section 199A(5)(b): amended, on 1 August 2008, by section 50(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).