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Land Transport Act 1998

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30ZD: Records must be kept

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“Keep records if you employ or connect drivers with passengers”

If you employ someone to drive a vehicle, drive a vehicle yourself, or help drivers connect with passengers for certain types of vehicles, you need to keep records. These records include information about time worked, payments made to drivers, and details about their employment or contract. You also need to keep records of where drivers stay and receipts for their accommodation if it’s related to their transport service. Additionally, you must keep records and receipts for fuel used by the vehicles.

You have to keep these records for 12 months from when they are made. If an enforcement officer asks to see these records, you need to show them right away at any reasonable time. The enforcement officer is allowed to make copies of these records if they need to.

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30ZDRecords must be kept

  1. Subsection (1) applies to—

  2. a person who employs a person to drive a vehicle referred to in section 30ZB; and
    1. a self-employed driver who drives a vehicle referred to in section 30ZB; and
      1. a facilitator who facilitates a driver who drives a vehicle referred to in section 30ZB to connect with passengers.

        1. A person to whom this section applies must keep all—

        2. time records, records of payments to the driver, and employment or contractual records relating to the driver; and
          1. accommodation records and receipts for the driver that are relevant to the driver’s transport service or transport service vehicle; and
            1. fuel records and receipts for the relevant transport service vehicles.

              1. The person who keeps the records required under subsection (1) must—

              2. keep each record for 12 months from the date it is made; and
                1. make all relevant records referred to in subsection (1) in the possession or control of that person available for immediate inspection on demand at any reasonable time by an enforcement officer.

                  1. Every enforcement officer to whom records are made available for inspection under subsection (2)(b) is entitled to make copies of those records.

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                  Notes
                  • Section 30ZD: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 77).
                  • Section 30ZD(1AA): inserted, on , by section 76(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                  • Section 30ZD(1): replaced, on , by section 76(1) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).
                  • Section 30ZD(2)(b): replaced, on , by section 76(2) of the Land Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 34).