Ridesharing Bill 2016 – Introduction and first reading

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Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) introduced a bill for an act to impose duties on facilitators of ridesharing, to amend the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983 to exempt ridesharing from the provisions of that act relating to commercial passenger vehicles and to amend the Transport Integration Act 2010 to recognise the undertaking of rideshare journeys as a transport service and for other purposes.

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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