Transport Services Licensing Regulations 1989 (SR 1989/313) (as at 01 May 2011)

Regulation by clause

9 Exempt services
  • For the purposes of clause 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 of the Act, the following services are exempt services:

    • (a) private ambulance services provided by organisations primarily for their employees, being ambulance services that are available to the general public in an emergency only when public ambulance services cannot provide a service:

    • (b) [Revoked]

    • (c) the use of vehicles principally designed as places of abode that are also able to carry horses and other livestock and are used in a private or sporting capacity:

    • (d) the delivery of newspapers, telephone directories, or other printed material in private motorcars, or in other vehicles for not more than a total of 7 days in any 12-month period:

    • (e) the use of trucks by registered traders to carry goods for demonstration and sale purposes:

    • (f) the use of vintage vehicles to carry goods for display purposes:

    • (g) the use of trailers towed by small passenger service vehicles to carry passengers' luggage:

    • (h) the towing of disabled vehicles using a rope tow or a flat tow by—

      • (i) any person employed by the New Zealand Automobile Association Incorporated or any constituent member association thereof; or

      • (ii) the owner of a garage or workshop at which repairs to such vehicles will be undertaken or any employee of the owner:

    • (i) the removal of vehicles by New Zealand Defence Force tow trucks at the request of an officer of the Ministry of Transport or a constable or a traffic officer who is a Police employee who is not a constable:

    • (j) routine towing services by New Zealand Defence Force tow trucks in areas where there is no commercial tow operator nearby:

    • (k) the hiring of light trailers:

    • (l) [Revoked]

    • (m) fast food outlet delivery services using any private motorcar or private motorcycle.

    Regulation 9: added, on 1 July 1993, by regulation 3 of the Transport Services Licensing Regulations 1989, Amendment No 1 (SR 1993/151).

    Regulation 9(b): revoked, on 1 October 2007, by regulation 6 of the Transport Services Licensing Amendment Regulations 2007 (SR 2007/233).

    Regulation 9(e): amended, on 15 December 2003, pursuant to section 145 of the Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003 (2003 No 12).

    Regulation 9(i): amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(d) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).

    Regulation 9(l): revoked, on 22 May 2008, by regulation 5 of the Transport Services Licensing Amendment Regulations 2008 (SR 2008/109).

    Regulation 9(m): added, on 27 April 1995, by regulation 2 of the Transport Services Licensing Regulations 1989, Amendment No 2 (SR 1995/67).