The Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday passed the outline of a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s taxi sector, which proposes that cabbies caught refusing to pick up passengers or overcharging them four times within five years will have their taxi-driving licences cancelled.
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario introduced the outline of the bill, which aims to ensure the service quality provided by taxi drivers, during a plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle yesterday.
The government launched a public consultation in 2014 on the drafting of a new law regulating the city’s taxi sector, to replace the existing taxi regulation which came into force in late 1999, i.e. shortly before the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).
Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosario (left) speaks during yesterday’s plenary session in the legislature’s hemicycle as Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Kelvin Lam Hin San looks on. Courtesy: TDM
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