Last Updated: 1 December 2016

[CIAF 14,280] Taxis and hire cars8 

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(1) The drivers of taxis and hire cars visiting the Airport must not be away from their vehicles for any period exceeding 10 minutes at any one time.
(2) No hire car may ply for hire within the Airport and the driver of any such car visiting or found at the Airport must. on demand by any authorised person, produce evidence of the prebooking of the hire car together with the names and, when available, the addresses of the passenger or passengers who have booked the hire car. A hire can only be used for particular prebooking and, if not required for that booking must be removed immediately from the Airport, provided that it shall not be in contravention of this subregulation for hire car owners or operators whose hire cars are usually and with consent garaged within the area of the Airport to keep such hire cars so garaged but such owners or operators shall not allow any such hire car to be brought to or to remain within the passenger terminal or any other area of the Airport in contravention of the provision of this subregulation; and provided always that any hire car which is being used for purely private purposes and not on hire may be parked in an area allocated for private motor vehicles, and shall when so parked, be treated as a private motor vehicle for the purpose of this regulation.
(3) No taxi driver, operator or owner or agent for any taxi or taxi driver, operator or owner shall approach—
  • (a)any passenger, guest, employee or other person using the Airport to offer him or her a taxi for hire at the Airport; or
  • (b)any person employed at the Airport or employed anywhere in connection with services at or through the Airport to act at his or her agent or as an agent for his or her taxi.

The approach for the hire of taxis at the Airport may only be made by passengers, guests, employees or the persons using the Airport.

(4) Each taxi and hire car parked or remaining at the Airport must be under the charge or care of a separate driver and it shall not be permitted for the driver to be in charge or to look after 2 or more cars at the same time.
(5) 
  • (a)Parking areas for taxis may be separately marked or allocated in spaces and may provide and be marked separately for—
    • (i)a taxi waiting area (ie where taxis pool or queue up before moving into vacant spaces in the taxis waiting for hire area); and
    • (ii)taxis waiting for hire; and
    • (iii)taxis already hired.
  • (b)In a parking area marked as a taxi waiting area or a taxi waiting for hire area, hereinafter respectively referred to as a “waiting rank” and as a “for hire rank”, and in a parking area marked for taxis already hired, no more spaces than is indicated on the traffic sign for the particular parking area may be occupied at any one time by taxis.
  • (c)Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subregulation, any taxi which is being used for purely private purposes and not on hire may be parked in a parking area allocated for private motor vehicles and shall, when so parked, be treated as a private motor vehicle for the purpose of this regulation.
  • (d)Subject to subregulation (7), a taxi not on hire and not already hired may also be temporarily in a parking area allocated or private motor vehicles, provided that, after being so parked, it shall not be moved directly from a parking area reserved for private motor vehicles into a parking area reserved for taxis already hired, or into a for hire rank, unless the waiting rank is empty and there is a vacancy in the for hire rank.
(6) 
  • (a)The spaces in a waiting rank or for hire rank shall be operated on a “first in, first out” basis and taxis shall be made available in such order, provided that if the driver of any taxi which holds any prior space is not available, the first taxi waiting or waiting for hire whose driver is available may move into the for hire rank or may accept the hire offered, as the case may be, and, in either such event, the driver of each taxi who was not available when the event occurred must vacate the prior space occupied by his or her taxi but may take up any vacant space behind all other taxis in the waiting rank or the for hire rank.
  • (b)When a taxi vacates any space either in a waiting rank or for hire rank, the driver of the taxi waiting for hire immediately behind the vacated space shall move his or her taxi into the vacated space without delay.
(7) 
  • (a)No taxi from outside the Nadi Airport taxi base shall occupy a space in the waiting rank or shall ply for hire from the Airport. Outside based taxis may be parked only in spaces specifically allocated or authorised for taxis already hired if they are prebooked to pick up passengers and the driver of any such taxi must, on demand by any authorised person, produce evidence of the prebooking of his or her taxi together with the names and, when available, the addresses of the passenger or passengers who have prebooked the taxi and they shall only pick up those passengers and no others from the Airport. If it is not required for a particular prebooking, a taxi from outside the Nadi Airport taxi base must be removed immediately from the Airport.
  • (b)Notwithstanding any of the provisions of paragraph (a), a taxi from outside the Nadi Airport taxi base may, when being used purely for private purpose, be parked in a parking area allocated for private motor vehicles and shall, when so parked, be treated as a private motor vehicle for the purpose of this regulation.
(8) The drivers of taxis waiting for hire must accept all hires offered, unless they have a legitimate reason for refusing a hire and, in the event of a driver refusing a hire, he or she shall, on demand by any authorised person, produce evidence or show cause why the hire was properly or reasonably refused.
(9) The Authority may, in writing, forbid the drivers or any taxis or hire cars which/and any taxi or hire car owners or operators any of whose vehicles, have been used in breach of any of the provisions of these Regulations, or who have, or whose vehicles have, otherwise operated or been operated, in a disorderly or unreasonable manner at the Airport from plying for hire at the Airport.