Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2012

Find out about what changes will be made to the Land Transport Managment Act 2003 through the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2012.

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What are the proposed changes in the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2012?

The Bill has three main components to it:

Planning and funding framework

Changes to the planning and funding framework will make a more streamlined, simpler, and less prescriptive piece of legislation. Changes include:

• simplifying the Act’s purpose and the decision making criteria for funding
• consolidating national planning documents
• consolidating regional planning documents
• simplifying the regional transport committee structure
• creating more flexibility in the Act to use borrowing in situations where there is a good case and it is prudent to do so
• repealing the provision for regional fuel taxes
• using land transport revenue to meet the costs of Ministry of
  Transport activities related to the protection of land transport revenue and the revenue system

Read the policy behind the change

Read the planning and funding framework questions and answers on the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2012

Road tolling and public private partnership provisions

The Bill will also improve the Act’s road tolling and public private partnership provisions; these changes will reduce potential barriers to their use while maintaining a robust approval process. Changes include:

• streamlining the decision criteria for road tolling schemes
• relying on established procurement process to manage public-private partnerships rather than complex concession agreement provisions
• enabling Route K, in Tauranga, to be brought under the Act’s road tolling regime
• revising the way privacy is handled under tolling schemes, to rely on the Privacy Act 1993 and the availability of an untolled alternative route

Read the policy behind the change

Read the road tolling questions and answers on the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill

Public Transport Operating Model

The Bill will establish in legislation a new policy framework for planning and managing public transport, known as the Public Transport Operating Model.

The Public Transport Operating Model will provide a framework for building a long-term public transport public-private partnership between regional councils and transport operators. This will see better integration of services and more focus on customer needs. Changes include:

• a requirement for public transport services to be provided under contract with the relevant regional council unless exempt
• a requirement for public transport services to be arranged into ‘units’ that are recorded in a Regional Public Transport Plan
• the insertion of a definition of a ‘unit’ as a public transport service (or a group of public transport services) that encompasses all the timetabled services operating on a route (or routes) identified in a regional public transport plan
• a requirement for all units to be under exclusive contract to the council
• allowing services that do not form part of a region’s core urban public transport network to be exempt from operating under contracts
• a requirement for councils to have an ‘exempt services’ register

Read the policy behind the change

Read the questions and answers on how the Public Transport Operating Model is being implemented in the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill