Passenger Transport Services Act 2011

Except as provided by this Part, an authorisation is ongoing subject to the payment of the continuity fees, if any, prescribed by the regulations.

If a service operator fails to pay a continuity fee for an authorisation by the day on which it falls due to be paid – the Commission, by notice, may demand that the service operator pay the continuity fee by a specified day; and the authorisation expires at the end of that specified day if, at that time, the continuity fee remains unpaid.

The authorisation of a regular passenger service runs with the service and is unaffected by a related business transaction.

A related business transaction does not, in itself, constitute grounds for cancelling or suspending the authorisation of a regular passenger service, but may constitute proper grounds to vary the conditions, if any, of the authorisation.

In this section – related business transaction, for a regular passenger service, includes – the sale or transfer of the service to another person; and a restructuring or rearrangement of the business arrangements of the service operator (not involving bankruptcy or external administration under the Corporations Act); and a transformation of the legal personality of the service operator (whether by incorporation, the formation of a partnership or otherwise); and a change of name or business name; and the purchase, sale, leasing or mortgaging of any office, garage, workshop or other premises used by the service.