Public Transport Management Act 2008

Before its repeal, this Act was administered by: Ministry of Transport
  • repealed
  • Public Transport Management Act 2008: repealed, on 13 June 2013, by section 71(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 35).

Reprint as at 13 June 2013

Public Transport Management Act 2008

Public Act2008 No 87
Date of assent25 September 2008
Commencementsee section 2

  • Public Transport Management Act 2008: repealed, on 13 June 2013, by section 71(1) of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 35).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Transport.

Contents

1 Title

2 Commencement

Part 1
Preliminary provisions

3 Purpose

4 Interpretation

5 Act binds the Crown

Part 2
Regulation of public transport

6 Application of certain provisions of Local Government Act 2002 to Auckland Transport

Subpart 1—Regional public transport plan

7 Purpose of regional public transport plans

8 Validity of regional public transport plans not affected by certain events

General requirements

9 Adoption of regional public transport plans

10 Contents of regional public transport plans

11 Notification and provision of copies of plans

12 When regional public transport plans take effect

13 Controls on commercial public transport services

14 Power to require information from operators of commercial public transport services

15 Implementation of controls on commercial public transport services

16 Contracting requirements

17 General exclusion of regional councils from liability to pay compensation

18 Exclusion of regional councils from liability to pay compensation for contracting requirements

19 Matters to take into account when preparing or adopting regional public transport plans

20 Consultation requirements for regional public transport plans

21 Currency and variation of regional public transport plans

22 Provision of information

Incorporation by reference

23 Incorporation of documents by reference in regional public transport plans

24 Effect of amendments to, or replacement of, material incorporated by reference in regional public transport plans

25 Proof of material incorporated by reference

26 Effect of expiry of material incorporated by reference

27 Consultation on proposal to incorporate material by reference

28 Access to material incorporated by reference

Subpart 2—Registration of public transport services

Register of public transport services

29 Register of public transport services

30 Contents of register to be made available to public

Registration of commercial public transport services

31 All commercial public transport services to be registered

32 Notification of proposal to operate commercial public transport services

33 Grounds for declining to register commercial public transport services

34 Process for declining to register commercial public transport services

35 Registration of commercial public transport services

Variation to registered commercial public transport services

36 Notification of proposed variation to registered commercial public transport services

37 Grounds for declining to vary registered commercial public transport services

38 Process for declining variation to registered commercial public transport services

39 Variation to registered commercial public transport services

40 Procedure for consideration of information

Monitoring and deregistration of commercial public transport services

41 Monitoring

42 Deregistration of commercial public transport services and removing details of variations

43 Process for deregistering commercial public transport services or removing details of variations

44 Regional councils may issue notices to comply

45 Court orders requiring compliance

46 Withdrawal of commercial public transport services

47 Deregistration as result of contracting requirement

Subpart 3—Miscellaneous

Notices

48 Notices

Appeals to Environment Court

49 Appeals in respect of controls

50 Appeals in respect of contracting requirements

51 Procedure for appeals to Environment Court

Appeals to District Court

52 Appeals to District Court

53 Procedure for appeals to District Court

54 Decisions of regional councils to continue in force pending appeals, etc

55 Appeals to High Court on questions of law

56 Further appeals to Court of Appeal

Offences

57 Operating unregistered commercial public transport services

58 Varying registered commercial public transport services without giving notice required by section 36

59 Withdrawing registered commercial public transport services without giving notice required by section 46

60 Withdrawing registered commercial public transport services before expiry of minimum duration specified in regional public transport plans

61 Power to inspect records

Regulations

62 Regulations

Repeals and consequential amendments

63 Repeals and consequential amendments

Transitional and savings provisions

64 Transitional provision for existing registered services

65 Transitional provision for notifications received but not processed before commencement of Act

66 Transitional provision for existing regional passenger transport plans

67 Transitional provisions for register of services

68 Transitional provisions for regional councils and ARTA [Repealed]

Schedule 1
Acts consequentially amended

Schedule 2
Land Transport Rule: Operator Licensing 2007 (81001) consequentially amended

Reprint notes