Passenger Transportation Online Licence Application Tutorial

The Passenger Transportation Regulation specifies the following as exempt from requiring a Passenger Transportation Licence:

1. a commercial passenger vehicle operated by
1. the government,
2. the government of any other province or territory of Canada,
3. the federal government, or
4. the government of the United States of America or of any state of that country;
2. a commercial passenger vehicle operated solely by a municipality or regional district, when that vehicle is being operated within the boundaries of the municipality or regional district;
3. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated by or on behalf of British Columbia Transit, continued under the British Columbia Transit Act, or the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, established under the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Act;
4. an ambulance;
5. a hearse or funeral coach or other commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated for the purpose of a funeral;
6. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated in Yoho National Park or Kootenay National Park;
7. a car pool vehicle;
8. a passenger transportation pool vehicle;
9. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is operated by a society for a primary purpose of the society, or by a charitable association for a primary purpose of the charitable association, if passenger transportation is not a primary purpose of the society or charitable association;
10. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated by a volunteer driver for the transportation of a passenger to and from a place at which the passenger seeks health care treatment;
11. a school bus;
12. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated
    1. by or on behalf of a community care facility to transport persons in care in the facility to or from the facility, or
    2. by or on behalf of an assisted living residence to transport residents of the residence to or from the residence.
13. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated by a motor dealer within the meaning of the Motor Dealer Act;
14. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated by a real estate agent within the meaning of the Real Estate Act;
15. a commercial passenger vehicle when
    1. the operator of the commercial passenger vehicle is operating the vehicle in the course of providing care, including hygiene, meal preparation, light housecleaning or shopping, to client who require personal assistance with activities of daily living,
    2. the arrangement or provision of that transportation is not a primary business of that operator, and
    3. no compensation is directly charged or collected for the provision of the transportation portion of the service being provided to that client by the operator.
16. an auxilliary passenger vehicle

The following is an excerpt from the Passenger Transportation Regulation:

The following commercial passenger vehicles are excluded from the definition of "passenger directed vehicle":

1. Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 168/2006]
2. A commercial passenger vehicle that is used only to transfer
   1. persons who have a disability, either permanent or temporary, confirmed by a medical practitioner, that is sufficiently severe that the person is physically unable without assistance to use conventional transit service, and
   2. any person accompanying a person referred to in subparagraph i;
3. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated for the transportation of passengers if the transportation is arranged or brokered on behalf of all of the passengers by a travel agent or travel wholesaler, as those terms are defined in the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act, as part of a tour package that includes at least one night’s accommodation for all of the passengers at a place other than their respective residences;
4. a commercial passenger vehicle when it is being operated for the transportation of passengers in the following circumstances:
   1. the transportation begins outside British Columbia and the passengers that are transported by the commercial passenger vehicle board the commercial passenger vehicle outside of British Columbia;
   2. a portion of the transportation is within British Columbia, whether or not the passengers leave the commercial passenger vehicle during that time;
   3. no passengers, other than those referred to in subparagraph (i), are picked up or transported by the commercial passenger vehicle in British Columbia

Transportation services that are excluded from the definition of the passenger directed vehicle are instead defined as a general passenger vehicle.

1. A commercial passenger vehicle is excluded from the definition of the "inter-city bus" when it is operated in accordance with the following:
   1. the commercial passenger vehicle
      1. picks up passengers from one or more locations in a municipality,
      2. transports those passengers to a location outside of the originating municipality, and
      3. returns those passengers to the originating municipality
   2. no passengers board the bus other than those passengers referred to in paragraph (a)(i);
   3. none of the passengers referred to in paragraph (a)(i), disembark in the originating municipality without having first gone to the location referred to in paragraph (a)(ii)
2. A “connector bus” is excluded from the definition of "inter-city bus".
3. The municipalities prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of "inter-city bus" in the Act are the municipalities incorporated under the Local Government Act other than the municipalities located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District or in the Capital Regional District.
4. The regional districts prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of "inter-city bus" in the Act are the regional districts incorporated under the Local Government Act other than the Capital Regional District and the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
5. A commercial passenger vehicle
   • is excluded from the definition of "inter-city bus" when it is operated on a set time schedule
     • between a location in the Capital Regional District and another location inside the Capital Regional District, or
     • between a location in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and another location inside the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and
   • is included in the definition of "inter-city bus" when it is operated on a set time schedule
     • between a location in the Capital Regional District and another location outside the Capital Regional District, whether in British Columbia or not, or
     • between a location in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and another location outside the Greater Vancouver Regional District, whether in British Columbia or not.

Transportation services that are excluded from the definition of the inter-city bus are instead defined as a general passenger vehicle.

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