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2005-0421 - United Future
Party - Greens mad on killer cabbies!
by Marc Alexander - Marc Alexander today slammed the Greens “over-weaning
concern” for serious criminals who they would have driving cabs......
"Can we think about the safety of the paying public here?" Mr
Alexander said...... I don’t care if the conviction was 30 years before. It
is the proverbial no-brainer," he said
2005-0415 - NZ
Parliament - Land Transport Amendment Bill (pdf)
The bill prohibits those convicted on or after the commencement of
this Act of specified serious offences including murder, serious sexual
offences and serious violent offences from holding or applying for a
passenger endorsement on their driver licence. .........We
considered whether this should be extended to persons convicted of these
offences before the commencement of this Act. We received advice that
extending the provision was not inconsistent with the principle against
retroactive penalties contained in section 26 of the New Zealand Bill of
Rights Act 1990. ..... However, the
Green Party is concerned at the permanent and retrospective exclusions
created by new clause 29A. Under this clause someone who committed a serious
offence in their teens, served their time and has then led a blameless life
for 20 or 30 years will lose their taxi licence with no possibility of
reinstatement.
2004-0921 - Act Party - New
legislation won't improve taxi industry
by Deborah Coddington - Anyone
convicted of any sex offence – serious or minor – should automatically be
disqualified from driving taxis....... “I will be seeking support from all
members of the Transport Select Committee – Labour, National, New Zealand
First, United and the Greens – to toughen up this law so that predatory taxi
drivers are eliminated from the industry. “It’s the least we can do to
preserve the status of those good, honest drivers who – like me – have had a
guts full of the sleazebags,” Miss Coddington said
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