Child restraints for personalised transport

Customers travelling in personalised transport vehicles (taxis, limousines and ride booking services) must wear a fastened seatbelt at all times. Customers 16 years and older who don’t  wear a fastened seatbelt while travelling in a personalised transport vehicle may be fined and accumulate demerit points.

Taxi, limousine and ride-booking drivers are not responsible for ensuring customers are wearing seatbelts/restrained if they are:

• 16 years or older (and not wearing their seatbelt)
• less than 7 years old and no suitable child restraint is available – and the child is not in the front seat (if the vehicle has two or more rows of seats).

Provision of child restraints

Personalised transport service providers are exempt from complying with standard child restraint laws.

More information is available on wearing of seatbelts and child restraints.