Land Transport Rule

Passenger Service Vehicles Amendment 2014

Rule 31001/7

Note: This Rule should be read in conjunction with the consolidated version of Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles 1999, which includes previous Rule amendments.

Wellington, New Zealand

PURSUANT to sections 152 and 155(a) and (b) of the Land Transport Act 1998, and after having had regard to the criteria specified in section 164(2) of that Act.

I, Michael Woodhouse, Associate Minister of Transport, make the following ordinary Rule:

Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles Amendment 2014

SIGNED AT Wellington

This               day of               2014



Contents

Objective of the Rule

Extent of consultation

Section 1     Application

Section 2     Amendments to Rule requirements

 

Objective of the Rule

Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles Amendment 2014 (the amendment Rule) amends Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles 1999 (the Passenger Service Vehicles Rule). The Passenger Service Vehicles Rule specifies the legal requirements for the design and construction of all passenger service vehicles in New Zealand.

The objective of the amendment Rule is to make changes to the Passenger Service Vehicles Rule so that:


Extent of consultation

For the purposes of consultation, amendments proposed to the Passenger Service Vehicles Rule and ten other Land Transport Rules were combined into a single Rule, Land Transport Rule: Omnibus Amendment 2014 (the Omnibus Amendment Rule). Following consultation, the provisions in the Omnibus Amendment Rule were split into eleven separate amendment Rules, including this Rule.

The NZ Transport Agency sent details of the amendment proposals by letter or email to approximately 2,400 groups and individuals who had registered an interest in the Rules to be amended. The Omnibus Amendment Rule was made available through the NZ Transport Agency’s Contact Centre and, together with Questions and Answers, was also made available on the NZ Transport Agency’s website. The availability of the amendment proposals for comment was publicised in the daily newspapers in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin and in the New Zealand Gazette.

The NZ Transport Agency received 25 submissions on the Omnibus Amendment Rule, of which 4 commented on the proposed amendments to the Passenger Service Vehicles Rule.

The submissions received were taken into account in finalising this amendment Rule following which it was submitted to the Associate Minister of Transport for signing.


Section 1     Application

1.1     Title

This Rule is Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles Amendment 2014.

1.2     Commencement

This Rule comes into force on 1 November 2014.

1.3     Principal rule amended

This Rule amends Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles 1999.


Section 2     Amendments to Rule requirements

2.1    Aisle space

2.1(1)    Replace clause 3.1(1) with:

2.1(2)    After clause 3.1(3), insert:

2.2    Roof-racks

2.2(1)    In clause 7.3, replace the heading “Roof-racks” with “Roof-racks on heavy passenger service vehicles”.

2.2(2)    In clause 7.3(1), before “passenger service vehicle” insert “heavy”.

2.2(3)    Revoke clause 7.3(2).

2.2(4)    Replace clause 7.3(3) with:

2.2(5)    Replace clause 7.3(4) with:

Land Transport Rule: Passenger Service Vehicles Amendment 2014 - Rule 31001/7
NZ Transport Agency, Waka Kotahi