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SUPPLEMENT

A holder of a Taxi Smartcard who is a participant Taxi Licences
of the NDIS can keep their Taxi Smartcard until
31 December 2023. The amount of taxi subsidies
that they can use on their Taxi Smartcard will be RELEASE
capped. The amount of the cap is:
The Tasmania Transport Commission is required by
Travel in a Do not legislation to make available Owner-Operator Taxi
wheelchair travel in a Licences (OOTLs) in each Tasmanian taxi area each
wheelchair year. The number of OOTLs to be released in 2019
Cap - Year 1 $1,000 $1,000 for each particular taxi area and minimum tender
(60% of taxi fares (50% of taxi price is listed below.
up to $30 per trip) fares up to
$25 per trip) The OOTLs will be made available by tender
Cap - Each other $350 $350 between 28 September 2019 and 2pm 16 October
year until 31 (60% of taxi fares (50% of taxi 2019.
December 2023 up to $30 per trip) fares up to The Commission must make OOTLs available for
$25 per trip) all taxi areas including Hobart. OOTLs must be
made available as the moratorium on release of
There are rules for an NDIS participant using their licences has ended. The moratorium prevented any
Taxi Smartcard. The rules are: additional OOTLs being made available in all taxi
• taxis are not free areas for the years 2016 and 2017 and prevented
release of OOTLs in Hobart in 2018.
• Taxi Smartcard users need to pay for some of
the taxi fare # of OOTLs Minimum
Taxi area to be released Tender Price
• Taxi Smartcard cannot be used at the same
time as transport funding in the NDIS plan Hobart 16 $60,000
and Launceston 5 $35,000
• Taxi Smartcard cannot be given to anyone Devonport 1 $23,000
else. Burnie 1 $23,000
Ulverstone 1 $17,250
• The cap will not apply to a holder of a Taxi George Town 1 $12,500
Smartcard who is not a participant of the Perth 1 $12,500
NDIS. West Tamar 1 $12,500
Meander Valley 1 $12,500
Circular Head 1 $11,250
Break O'Day 1 $10,800
New Norfolk 1 $10,800
WAT trip subsidy payments that WAT operators Huon Valley 1 $7,500
would no longer receive. Glamorgan/Spring Bay Nth 1 $3,750
WAT trip subsidy payments are no longer made as Kentish 1 $3,750
Taxi Smartcards were cancelled when the holder Penguin 1 $3,750
became a participant of the NDIS. Tasman 1 $3,750
Participants of the NDIS will now keep their Taxi Dorset 1 $2,250
Smartcards until the end of 2023. Glamorgan/Spring Bay Sth 1 $1,875
Bruny Island 1 $1,000
It follows that WAT operators will continue to
receive the WAT trip subsidy payments until Central Highlands 1 $1,000
December 2023, making Interim WAT payments Flinders Island 1 $1,000
unnecessary. King Island 1 $1,000
West Coast 1 $1,000
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