34   Requirement for authority

(1)  RMS may authorise persons to operate taxi-cab networks, subject to and in accordance with this Division. A person authorised under this Division is referred to in this Part as an “authorised taxi-cab network provider”.

(2)  A person who operates a taxi-cab network, being a network operating wholly or partly within New South Wales, is guilty of an offence unless the person is an authorised taxi-cab network provider.

Maximum penalty: 1,000 penalty units.

(3)  The purpose of authorisation under this Division is to attest:

(a)  that the authorised person is (or, in the case of an authorised person that is a corporation, the designated directors and managers of the corporation are) considered to be of good repute and in all other respects fit and proper to be responsible for the operation of a taxi-cab network, and

(b)  that the authorised person has demonstrated the capacity to meet and continue to meet the appropriate requirements with respect to:

(i)  financial viability, and

(ii)  the delivery of taxi-cab services, including a taxi-cab booking service, and

(iii)  supervising and monitoring taxi-cab operators and taxi-cab drivers,

      to the degree and in the manner required in respect of a taxi-cab network.

(4)  The appropriate requirements are:

(a)  such requirements as may be prescribed by the regulations, and

(b)  the standards determined under section 34E.