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Committee Report

The committee tabled its report no. 37, 55th Parliament - Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) Amendment Bill 2017 on 15 May 2017. The bill was passed on passed with amendment on 24 May 2017.

View:   Report no. 37, 55th Parliament - Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) 
            Amendment Bill 2017 
View:   Government response - report no. 37, 55th Parliament - Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised 
            Transport Reform) Amendment Bill 2017
View:   Amendments during consideration in detail on 24 May 2017 - explanatory notes
View:   The Bill was debated in the Parliament on 24 May 2017 - transcript (pages 1348 - 1368 and 1375 - 1393)  
            The debate on the Bill can be viewed by clicking on the movie icon  within the transcript
View:   Minister’s speech introducing the Bill into the Queensland Parliament 
View:   Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) Amendment Bill 2017
View:   Explanatory Notes to the Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) Amendment Bill 2017
View:   Draft Regulation - part of documents tabled on 9 March 2017 (see pages 116 - 150)

About the Bill

On 21 March 2017 the Minister for Main Roads, Road Safety and Ports and Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply, the Hon. Mark Bailey MP introduced the Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) Amendment Bill 2017 into the Queensland Parliament.  In accordance with Standing Order 131, the Bill was referred to the Public Works and Utilities Committee for detailed consideration. The committee to report by 15 May 2017.

The purpose of the Bill was to give effect to the second stage of the personalised transport reform program. It proposes amendments to the Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Act 1994 and other legislation, including the following measures to:

• strengthen safety standards including establishing a general duty relating the management of fatigue, a requirement for zero blood alcohol levels for the drivers of all public passenger vehicles, and providing a specific power to make regulations relating to the use of security cameras in vehicles
• encourage customer choice within a fairer regulatory framework including introducing a new licensing framework for booked hire services and for taxi service licences, preserving existing taxi service licences and existing limousine service licences, and allowing limousines to be used to provide booked hire services, removing provisions relating to peak demand taxi permits
• reduce red tape and allow industry to innovate and improve their service offerings including replacing the requirement for a person administering taxi services to hold a service contract in certain areas with a simplified authorisation regime for all booking entities, and removing requirements for taxi service bailment agreements between operators and drivers, and
• ensure industry accountability including establishing a new chain of responsibility to ensure each party involved in providing taxi and booked hire services takes reasonable steps to prevent the commission of an offence and to minimise safety risks, imposing significant financial sanctions and non-financial sanctions for unauthorised taxi or booked hire services, and establishing audit powers for investigating legislative compliance.

The committee resolved to extend the Bill inquiry to include consideration of the related proposed draft Transport and Other Legislation (Personalised Transport Reform) Amendment Regulation 2017 that was tabled on 9 March 2017. The draft Regulation proposed amendments to the Transport Operations (Passenger Transport) Regulation 2005 and the Motor Accident Insurance Regulation 2004. The draft Regulation was part of documents tabled on 9 March 2017 (see pages 116 – 150).

Inquiry Timeline

Public Briefing:           20 April 2017 – transcript
Public Hearing:           20 April 2017 – transcript
Submissions Closed:  10 April 2017 – see “View Submissions” tab above
Report Tabled:            15 May 2017 - report

Where possible, recordings of public proceedings of the committee eg hearings and briefings, will be available at -  

View:  Parliament TV (live and replay) - http://tv.parliament.qld.gov.au/TV/SearchCommittee/37
View:  Transcripts - click on the link or “related publications” tab above