§ 116 — Amendment of Point-to-Point Passenger Transport Industry Act 2019

116. In the Point-to-Point Passenger Transport Industry Act 2019, in section 4(1), replace the definition of “participating driver agreement” with —“ “participating driver agreement”, in relation to a provider of a ride-hail service, means an agreement or arrangement between the provider of a ride‑hail service and a driver of a bookable vehicle under which —(a)

the provider agrees to —(i)

take or facilitate any booking by or on behalf of a passenger for bookable vehicles made available, or to be made available, in providing on‑demand passenger transport services (whether immediately or at a later time) to the passenger; and

(ii)

communicate the booking to participating bookable drivers; and

(b)

the driver agrees to carry out the on‑demand passenger transport service in the booking by transporting the passenger for hire or reward, using a bookable vehicle,

and it does not matter —

(c)

whether or not —(i)

the driver is an employee or agent of the provider of the ride‑hail service; or

(ii)

where the provider of the ride‑hail service is a platform operator, the driver is a platform worker of the provider; or

(d)

whether the vehicle is hired from that provider;

“platform operator” has the meaning given by section 4 of the Platform Workers Act 2024;

“platform worker” has the meaning given by section 5(1) of the Platform Workers Act 2024;”.