September 2016
Land Transport Amendment Bill Introduced
The Land Transport Amendment Bill was introduced to Parliament on 12 September 2016. The Bill amends the Land Transport Act 1998 and consequentially amends other Acts, regulations, and land transport rules.
To promote the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of the land transport system, the Bill will:
- introduce new requirements that will apply to all small passenger services, by removing outdated provisions and by catering for the use of new technologies that facilitate such services
- make the alcohol interlock programme mandatory for repeat and serious first time drink-driving offenders
- incease penalties for fleeing drivers, or those who fail or refuse to provide information that may lead to the identification of fleeing drivers
- include new provisions to help limit fare evasion on public transport
- update the Act's requirements relating to heavy vehicles to complement the new Land Transport (Vehicle Dimensions and Mass) Rule 2016
- make miscellaneous changes to various Act provisions to make them more workable.
- Read the Minister of Transport's media statement on the Introduction of the Land Transport Amendment Bill
- View the Land Transport Amendment Bill
- Read the questions and answers on the Land Transport Amendment Bill
Read the questions and answers on the Land Transport Amendment Bill - Follow progress of the Bill on the Parliament website
Cabinet Paper
The following Regulatory Impact Statements (RIS) have been prepared for the proposed changes to the Land Transport Act 1998:
- Reducing Road Trauma and the Cost of Reoffending: Mandatory Alcohol Interlocks
- Proposal to Manage Fare Evasion on Public Transport Services
- Options to increase penalties for failing to stop and failing or refusing to provide information or providing false information
- Amendements to Land Transport Act 1998: vehicle dimensions and mass related provisions
- Future Framework for Small Passenger Services
- Third Party Facilitated Carpooling
- Land Transport Act 1998 - Proposed Miscellaneous Amendments
- Road user charges: administration fee credit card bank charges