COMMERCIAL PASSENGER (ROAD) TRANSPORT (LIMOUSINES) REGULATIONS 2003

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA COMMERCIAL PASSENGER (ROAD) TRANSPORT (LIMOUSINES) REGULATIONS 2003 As in force at 21 January 2026 Table of provisions 1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1 2 Commencement .............................................................................. 1 3 Definitions ........................................................................................ 1 4 Operator to maintain records ........................................................... 1 5 Operator to furnish information ........................................................ 2 8 Plying for hire prohibited .................................................................. 2 9 Hiring to be pre-booked ................................................................... 2 10 No touting or soliciting ..................................................................... 2 12 Parking of limousine ........................................................................ 3 14 Purchase of intoxicating liquor ......................................................... 3 15 Driver to have identity card or approved form of identification ......... 3 16 Fees ................................................................................................ 4 Schedule Fee ENDNOTES -- 1 of 9 -- -- 2 of 9 -- NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA ____________________ As in force at 21 January 2026 ____________________ COMMERCIAL PASSENGER (ROAD) TRANSPORT (LIMOUSINES) REGULATIONS 2003 Regulations under the Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991 1 Citation These Regulations may be cited as the Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003. 2 Commencement These Regulations come into operation on the commencement of Part 5AA of the Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Act 1991. 3 Definitions In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears: driver means the person driving or in charge of a limousine. operator means a person who operates a limousine otherwise than only as a driver. public place includes any place to which the public are admitted on payment of a fee or charge. 4 Operator to maintain records (1) An operator must make a written record of: (a) the dates and times during which the limousine is operated for the carriage of passengers; (b) the full name and residential address of the driver during those periods and the number of the driver's licence issued to him or her under the Motor Vehicles Act 1949; (c) every booking and hiring made by the limousine; and -- 3 of 9 -- Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 2 (d) any other matter that the Director requires as a condition of the operator's licence. Maximum penalty: 60 penalty units. (2) An operator must ensure that the record referred to in subregulation (1): (a) is kept in a safe place at the principal place of business of the operator; and (b) is produced whenever required by an inspector. Maximum penalty: 60 penalty units. 5 Operator to furnish information An operator must, whenever requested by the Director to do so, furnish to the Director within the time specified by the Director full and correct information of any details specified in the request relating to journeys undertaken by the limousine. Maximum penalty: 60penalty units. 8 Plying for hire prohibited A person must not use a limousine for the purpose of standing or plying for hire. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. 9 Hiring to be pre-booked (1) A person must not use a limousine (whether as a driver or a passenger) for a hiring unless the journey is pre-booked with the operator. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. (2) An operator is not compelled to accept a hiring for the limousine. 10 No touting or soliciting A person must not tout or solicit for passengers for a limousine. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. -- 4 of 9 -- Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 3 12 Parking of limousine (1) A driver must not park or stand the limousine on a road or a public place or on a lot off a road or public place unless the parking or standing is for the purposes of: (a) picking up or setting down passengers; (b) waiting under the instructions of a passenger; or (c) by direction or with the consent of an inspector, but only if the parking or standing of the limousine is otherwise lawful. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. (2) Subregulation (1) does not apply if the limousine is parked on a lot approved as a lot for the limousine. 14 Purchase of intoxicating liquor (1) An operator or a driver must not accept a hiring under which the driver is required to purchase intoxicating liquor for or on behalf of another person whether or not that other person is a passenger. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. (2) A driver must not in the course of a hiring of the limousine purchase intoxicating liquor for or on behalf of a passenger. Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units. 15 Driver to have identity card or approved form of identification (1) For section 74 of the Act, a limousine is a prescribed class of commercial passenger vehicle. (2) An identity card issued under section 74(1)(a) of the Act to a driver is to: (a) display the name of the driver; (b) display a recent photograph of the driver; (c) specify the expiry date of the card; and (d) indicate that the holder of the card is authorised to drive a limousine. -- 5 of 9 -- Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 4 (3) A driver must: (a) carry the driver's identity card mentioned in subregulation (2) or other form of identification approved by the Director under section 74(10) of the Act while driving the limousine; and (b) produce that identity card or other approved form of identification when requested by a passenger or an inspector. Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units. 16 Fees A fee specified in the Schedule is payable for the matter specified opposite the fee. -- 6 of 9 -- Schedule Fee Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 5 Schedule Fee regulation 16 $ 1. Annual fee for a limousine licence 300 2. Application for a refund on surrender of a limousine licence 20 -- 7 of 9 -- ENDNOTES Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 6 ENDNOTES 1 KEY Key to abbreviations amd = amended od = order app = appendix om = omitted bl = by-law pt = Part ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule cl = clause rem = remainder div = Division renum = renumbered exp = expires/expired rep = repealed f = forms s = section Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation lt = long title sub = substituted nc = not commenced 2 LIST OF LEGISLATION Limousine Regulations (SL No. 39, 2003) Notified 1 August 2003 Commenced 1 August 2003 (r 2, s 2 Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport Amendment Act (No. 2) 2003 (Act No. 40, 2003) and Gaz G30, 30 July 2003, p 13) Fees and Charges (Transport) Amendment Regulations 2012 (SL No. 45, 2012) Notified 14 December 2012 Commenced 1 January 2013 (r 2) Penalties Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act 2013 (Act No. 23, 2013) Assent date 12 July 2013 Commenced 28 August 2013 (Gaz G35, 28 August 2013, p 2) Commercial Passenger Vehicle Legislation Amendment Regulations 2017 (SL No. 34, 2017) Notified 29 November 2017 Commenced 1 December 2017 (r 2) Statute Law Amendment (Territory Economic Reconstruction) Act 2022 (Act No. 5, 2022) Assent date 14 April 2022 Commenced pt 7: 25 May 2023 (Gaz G11, 25 May 2023, p 2); rem: 25 May 2022 (Gaz G21, 25 May 2022, p 1) Transport Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (Act No. 23, 2025) Assent date 12 September 2025 Commenced pts 2, 4, 5 and 6: 21 January 2026 (Gaz S5, 19 January 2026); rem: 18 November 2025 (Gaz S69, 17 November 2025) -- 8 of 9 -- ENDNOTES Commercial Passenger (Road) Transport (Limousines) Regulations 2003 7 3 GENERAL AMENDMENTS General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22 of 2018) to: rr 1, 2 and 4. 4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS r 1 amd Act No. 23, 2025, s 66 r 4 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4; No. 34, 2017, r 13 r 5 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4; No. 34, 2017, r 14 rr 6 – 7 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 rep No. 34, 2017, r 15 rr 8 – 10 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 r 11 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 rep No. 34, 2017, r 15 r 12 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 r 13 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 rep No. 34, 2017, r 15 r 14 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4 r 15 amd Act No. 23, 2013, s 4; No. 34, 2017, r 16; Act No. 5, 2022, s 69 sch amd No. 45, 2012, r 6; No. 34, 2017, r 17 -- 9 of 9 --