Public Transport Authority Act 2003

The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made —

about the provision of public passenger transport services by the Authority;

about any place or thing involved in the provision of public passenger transport services by the Authority;

about the setting of fares for the use of a public passenger transport service provided by the Authority;

regulating the conduct of a person who is —

using a public passenger transport service provided by the Authority; or

in any place associated with the provision of a public passenger transport service provided by the Authority,

for protecting —

the safety and security of any person using a public passenger transport service provided by the Authority; or

any property belonging to or under the control of the Authority;

prescribing matters for which fees or charges are payable, and making provision as to the amount of any fee or charge.

In addition, the Governor may make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed, whether in relation to the performance of the Authority’s functions under this Act or any other Act, for regulating or prohibiting the possession of any prescribed thing by a person who is on or in any vehicle, premises, or other place belonging to or under the control of the Authority.

The regulations cannot prohibit the possession of anything by a person who is on or in any vehicle, premises, or other place belonging to or under the control of the Authority unless the possession of that thing could result in a nuisance to any person or could endanger the safety of any person or any Authority property.

Regulations under this section may —

provide that contravention of a regulation is an offence;

prescribe, for an offence against the regulations, a penalty not exceeding a fine of $2 000.