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Volume 48, No. 13

B.C. Reg. 230/2005

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

June 28, 2005

B.C. Reg. 230/2005, deposited June 24, 2005, pursuant to the PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION ACT [Section 59]. Order in Council 467/2005, approved and ordered June 24, 2005.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator,

by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the

Passenger Transportation Regulation, B.C. Reg. 266/2004, is amended as set out

in the attached Schedule.

— W. OPPAL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 9 (1) of the Passenger Transportation Regulation, B.C. Reg. 266/2004, is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) Passengers in a commercial passenger vehicle must not stand while that commercial passenger vehicle is in motion unless

(

a) the number of passengers standing does not exceed the lesser of

(

i) the number determined in accordance with the calculations set out in

section 10.03 (2) and (3) of the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, and

(ii) the number of handholds, straps, rails or other pieces of equipment available in the commercial passenger vehicle to provide support for standing passengers,

(

b) the vision or movement of the driver is not impaired in any way by the persons standing, and

(

c) one of the following applies:

(

i) the commercial passenger vehicle is a general passenger vehicle and the commercial passenger vehicle is being operated

(

A) during the months of May to October in any year,

(

B) within a park under contract with the parks board having responsibility for that park, and

(

C) at a speed that does not exceed 30 kilometres per hour,

(ii) the commercial passenger vehicle is an inter-city bus and the licence that authorizes the commercial passenger vehicle to be operated as an inter-city bus expressly authorizes passengers to stand while the commercial passenger vehicle is in motion.

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