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Land Transport Act 1998

Transport services licensing - Primary responsibilities of holders of transport service licences

30A: Requirements for vehicles

You could also call this:

“Rules for keeping vehicles safe and legal in transport services”

If you have a transport service licence, you need to make sure the vehicles you use are in good condition and follow the rules. You must pay all the fees for your vehicles and service, or arrange to pay them. The Director can ask you to bring your vehicles for inspection at any time.

If you drive a small passenger service vehicle, you also need to show it for inspection when the Director asks. Before anyone can give you a vehicle inspection certificate, they need to know your transport service licence number.

If your transport service vehicle gets badly damaged, you can’t use it until someone the Director approves checks it and says it’s safe. If they say it shouldn’t be checked, you can’t use it.

These rules don’t apply to small passenger services, shared-cost arrangements, or vehicles that can carry 12 or fewer people (including the driver) if one of the passengers provides the vehicle.

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Part 4A Transport services licensing
Primary responsibilities of holders of transport service licences

30ARequirements for vehicles

  1. A holder of a transport service licence must ensure that—

  2. every vehicle to be used in the service is maintained in a fit and proper condition and that the requirements of any legislation (including bylaws) made for this purpose are met:
    1. no vehicle is used in the service unless and until all fees payable in respect of the vehicle and the service under any legislation (including bylaws) have been duly paid or appropriate arrangements have been made for payment.

      1. The holder of any transport service licence must, whenever required to do so by the Director, present for inspection any transport service vehicle used in the service.

      2. The driver of a small passenger service vehicle must, whenever required to do so by the Director, present the vehicle for inspection.

      3. No evidence of vehicle inspection may be issued in respect of a transport service vehicle unless the person issuing the evidence of vehicle inspection has been notified of the transport service licence number under which the vehicle is being operated.

      4. No person may use a transport service vehicle if that vehicle has suffered serious damage until the vehicle has been inspected and passed as being safe by a person authorised by the Director, or the owner of the vehicle has been informed by such a person that the vehicle is not to be inspected.

      5. Nothing in subsection (1), (3), or (4) applies to a vehicle used in a small passenger service.

      6. Nothing in this section applies to—

      7. the facilitator of a facilitated cost-sharing arrangement; or
        1. a vehicle used in a facilitated cost-sharing arrangement; or
          1. a vehicle designed or adapted to carry 12 or fewer persons (including the driver) provided by one of the passengers being carried.

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            Notes
            • Section 30A: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).
            • Section 30A(1)(a): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
            • Section 30A(1)(a): amended, on , by section 62(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
            • Section 30A(1)(b): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
            • Section 30A(1)(b): amended, on , by section 62(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
            • Section 30A(2): amended, on , by section 39 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
            • Section 30A(2): amended, on , by section 62(2) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
            • Section 30A(2A): inserted, on , by section 62(3) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
            • Section 30A(2A): amended, on , by section 39 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
            • Section 30A(4): amended, on , by section 39 of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
            • Section 30A(5): inserted, on , by section 62(4) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
            • Section 30A(6): inserted, on , by section 62(4) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).