29Criteria for authorisation to drive public passenger
vehicles
(1)
For the purposes of section 12(2) of the Act, the
criteria that an applicant for an authorisation to drive a public passenger
vehicle must meet before the application is granted are the criteria set out
in subclauses (2) and (3).
(2)
The applicant for a driver
authority—
(a)
must be at least 20 years of age,
and
(b)
must hold an Australian driver licence that is an
unrestricted licence, and
(c)
must have held an Australian driver licence, that
is an unrestricted licence, for a total of at least 12 months in the 2 years
immediately preceding the date of the application, and
(d)
must have passed an examination or assessment, at
a level determined by TfNSW, in medical fitness, and
(e)
must satisfy TfNSW that he or she—
(i)
may lawfully work in Australia,
and
(ii)
is of good repute and in all other respects a fit
and proper person to be the driver of the vehicle concerned,
and
(iii)
has sufficient responsibility to drive the
vehicle concerned in accordance with law and
custom.
(3)
In the case of an application for authorisation
to drive buses, the applicant must also have successfully completed a bus
driver training course approved by TfNSW and conducted by a registered
training organisation (or must have such competence as a driver of buses as
TfNSW considers appropriate).
(4), (4A)
(5)
In this clause—
Australian driver
licence means—
(a)
a driver licence, or
(b)
a licence issued under a law in force in a State
or internal Territory authorising the holder to drive a motor vehicle on a
road or road related area.
unrestricted
licence means a licence that is not a learner licence,
probationary licence, provisional licence, restricted licence, driver licence
receipt or conditional licence (other than a conditional licence the sole
condition of which is that the holder must wear corrective lenses at all times
while driving).
Note—
See clause 237 for the TfNSW’s power to
exempt certain applicants from the requirement that they hold driver
licences.
cl 29: Am 2017 (595),
Sch 1 [26]–[29]; 2018 (782), cl 3 (1)–(3).