New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) A regional council, in a regional public transport plan,—
(a) must describe—
(i) the public transport services that the regional council proposes to be provided in its region, and may include (but is not limited to) a statement or description of routes, capacity, times, and frequency of services; and
(ii) any taxi services or shuttle services for which it intends to provide financial assistance; and
(iii) how the public transport services and any services referred to in subparagraph (ii) will assist the transport disadvantaged; and
(iv) how the plan gives effect to the public transport service components of the regional land transport strategy that applies to the regional council's region; and
(b) must specify any policies that are to apply to public transport services, and to any services referred to in subsection (1)(a)(ii), in the regional council's region; and
(c) must specify the classes of service to which the policies apply; and
(d) must describe how it will implement the policies; and
(e) may specify any controls under section 13 and, if it does so, must state the matters required by subsection (3); and
(f) may specify any contracting requirements under section 16 and, if it does so, must state the matters required by subsection (3); and
(g) may require a minimum period of notice (which may be not less than 35 working days and no more than 65 working days) for—
(i) commencing a commercial public transport service:
(ii) varying a commercial public transport service; and
(h) may require a minimum period of notice (which may not be more than 65 working days) for withdrawing a commercial public transport service; and
(i) must set out the policy the regional council will apply in determining whether a proposed variation to the regional public transport plan is significant for the purpose of section 21(6); and
(j) may state or describe any other matters that the regional council thinks fit.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(b), a regional council may include in a regional public transport plan—
(a) policies on—
(i) the information that public transport operators must supply to the regional council for public transport planning, contracting, and monitoring purposes:
(ii) quality standards and performance standards:
(iii) providing or promoting an integrated public transport system, which may include (without limitation) policies on integrated services, integrated ticketing, integrated fares, and integrated technology:
(iv) services that are to be operated as a group of all contracted public transport services or all commercial public transport services whether or not they are on the same route:
(v) fares for contracted public transport services in the region or the method or formula or other bases for setting those fares, for example, time, zone or stage, mode of travel, number of journeys, and the availability of concessions:
(vi) the application of common emblems, signs, or designs to the vehicles, or other modes of transport used in public transport services in the region:
(vii) fostering co-operation between the regional council and public transport operators to make timetables and journey-planning information available to the public in a specified format, for example, in electronic or printed form or on their respective Internet sites:
(viii) the minimum period of operation of public transport services in the region:
(b) special policies and provisions for any users of any specified class or description of—
(i) public transport services; or
(ii) taxi service or shuttle service for which the regional council intends to provide financial assistance:
(c) policies on the standards and procedures for monitoring compliance with controls:
(d) any other policies that the regional council thinks fit.
(3) If any controls or contracting requirements are specified in a plan, the plan must include a summary of—
(a) the regional council's reasons for including the controls or contracting requirements in the plan, including a statement explaining why the regional council is satisfied that the controls or contracting requirements are consistent with the purpose of the plan; and
(b) the alternatives to those controls or contracting requirements (including alternative controls) that were considered by the regional council; and
(c) the likely effectiveness of those alternatives in implementing the policies in the plan.
(4) A regional public transport plan may provide that an action described in the plan must or may be done by a regional council or a committee or other subordinate decision-making body or a member or officer of the regional council, and may specify conditions applying to the doing of the action.
(5) Subsection (4) does not limit or affect anything in the Local Government Act 2002.
