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Land Transport Act 1998

Transport services licensing - Licensing of transport services

30L: Grant of licence

You could also call this:

“How the Director decides if you can get a transport service licence”

When you apply for a transport service licence, the Director looks at your application. The Director can give you a licence only if they think certain things about you and the people involved in your service are true.

The Director needs to be sure that you, and anyone who will be in charge of the transport service, are good and trustworthy people. They also need to know that any representatives you have are good and trustworthy too.

If you or anyone in charge needs a special certificate for the job, the Director checks that you have it. They also make sure you’ve followed all the important rules.

For small passenger services, like taxis, the Director has extra rules. Either the person in charge must live in New Zealand, or you need to have a representative who lives here.

When the Director is deciding if someone is good and trustworthy for a transport service, they look at specific things that are listed in subpart 2.

If the Director decides not to give you a licence, there are special rules about that decision in subpart 5.

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Part 4A Transport services licensing
Licensing of transport services

30LGrant of licence

  1. After considering an application for a transport service licence, the Director may grant the licence only if the Director is satisfied that—

  2. the applicant is a fit and proper person to hold a transport service licence; and
    1. any person who is to have, or is likely to have, control of the transport service is a fit and proper person to have such control; and
      1. any representative meeting the requirements of subsection (1A)(b) is a fit and proper person to be a representative; and
        1. the applicant or any person who is to have control of the transport service is the holder of the appropriate certificate (if any) required by the regulations or the rules; and
          1. all relevant requirements of this Act, the regulations, and the rules have been complied with.

            1. The Director may grant a small passenger service licence only if the Director is satisfied that—

            2. a person who is to have control of the small passenger service in New Zealand lives in New Zealand; or
              1. the small passenger service operator has a representative who lives in New Zealand.

                1. In determining whether or not a person is a fit and proper person in relation to any transport service, the Director must consider the matters specified in subpart 2.

                2. Subpart 5 applies to a decision not to grant a transport service licence.

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                Notes
                • Section 30L: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).
                • Section 30L(1): replaced, on , by section 67(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                • Section 30L(1): amended, on , by section 47(1) of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
                • Section 30L(1A): inserted, on , by section 67(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                • Section 30L(1A): amended, on , by section 47(2) of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
                • Section 30L(2): amended, on , by section 47(3) of the Land Transport (NZTA) Legislation Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 48).
                • Section 30L(2): amended, on , by section 67(2) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).