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Application Summary

Transfer of Licence

Application #23960-25
Application Summary

Transfer of Passenger Transportation Licence – Passenger Directed Vehicle Authorization (PDVA): Taxi

  • Licence Originating Area: any point within the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District excluding the Tofino Peninsula.

  • Request: transfer licence from Russell William MCLAUGHLIN to Manjinder Singh HAYRE

Applicant Transferee

(Transfer Licence To)

Principal: Manjinder Singh HAYRE

Trade Name: Alberni District United Cabs Association

Office: 3670 9th Avenue, Port Alberni B.C., V9Y 4T5

Applicant Transferor (Transfer Licence From)

Principal: Russell William MCLAUGHLIN

Trade Name: Alberni District United Cabs Association

Office: 3556 4th Avenue, Port Alberni B.C. V9Y 4H4

Passenger Transportation Licence # 70386 with PDVA: Taxi

More Information

Appendix 1: Terms and Conditions of Licence for Transfer

Appendix 2: Data Requirements

Appendix 3: Rates and Rules

PublicationDecember 17, 2025
Submission DeadlineDecember 31, 2025

Manjinder Singh HAYRE

Alberni District United Cabs Association

Appendix 1: Terms and Conditions of Licence for Transfer

If this transfer application is approved, the transferee will be subject to licence requirements including terms and conditions of licence that are set out below in “A. Legislative Requirements,” “B. Passenger Transportation Vehicles,” “C. Originating Areas and Services,” and “D. Other Requirements.”

Special Authorization

Passenger Directed Vehicles Authorization

PDVA: Taxi

Terms & Conditions

Definitions

“Board” means the Passenger Transportation Board

“Registrar” means the Registrar, Passenger Transportation

  1. Legislative Requirements

Vehicle Identifiers

Each motor vehicle operated under this authorization must display, at the times and in the form and manner required by the Registrar, a vehicle identifier that is:

(a) issued to the licensee by the Registrar; or

(b) authorized by the Registrar to be issued by the licensee.

Data Requirements

The licensee must provide to the Registrar any information, including personal information, and data that the Registrar or Board may require within time periods that the Registrar or Board may reasonably require, which may include, without limitation, information and data set out in section 28(5)(a) to (c) of the Passenger Transportation Act.
  1. Passenger Transportation Vehicles
Maximum Fleet Size1 vehicle
Vehicle Capacity (Taxi)A driver and not less than 2 and not more than 7 passengers.
  1. Originating Areas & Services
Service 1The following terms and conditions apply to Service 1:
Originating AreaTransportation of passengers may only originate from any point within the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District excluding the Tofino Peninsula.
Destination AreaTransportation of passengers may only terminate at any point on Vancouver Island.
Return TripsThe same passengers may only be returned from where their trip terminates in the destination area to any point in the originating area if the return trip is arranged by the time the originating trip terminates.
Reverse Trip (limited)Transportation of passengers may only originate in the destination area if the transportation terminates in the originating area and the cost of the trip is billed to an active account held by the licence holder that was established before the trip was arranged.
  1. Other Requirements
Hailing in Originating Area
  1. A trip may be arranged by taxis by:
  2. booking the motor vehicle in advance;
  3. hailing the motor vehicle from the street;
  4. hailing the motor vehicle through a dispatcher; or
  5. hailing the motor vehicle through an app that does not process payment for the fare.
  6. Passengers must not be hailed through a Transportation Network Service app that connects drivers with passengers who hail and pay for the services through the use of an online platform.
Top LightsMotor vehicles may be equipped with a top light.
MetersMotor vehicles must be equipped with a meter that calculates fares on a time and distance basis.

Applications (apps)

General requirements

Collecting personal health information

Shielding driver and passenger information

Certain charges not allowed

Taxis must keep phone dispatch

Apps may not accept payment for fares

  1. An application (app) offered by the licensee that allows passengers to book a trip on a mobile device must:

have geo-fencing capability;

only connect drivers with passengers for pick up and drop off as specified in Section C (Originating Areas and Services) of this licence;

record, before an originating trip ends, return trips requested under a licensee’s “return trip authority” term and condition and retain this recorded information in a retrievable form for 12 months;

  1. display and transmit information in English and may display and transmit the same information in other languages;

  2. give the app user an option to request a wheelchair accessible vehicle, if the licensee operates them;

  3. not collect or record personal health information about a passenger or their use of mobility aids, without the consent of the app user;

  4. retain, in a retrievable form, consent obtained pursuant to section 1(f) above until such consent is withdrawn or no longer required;

  5. protect information referred to in section 1(f) above by a password or biometric safeguard that the app user may access to see or modify the information;

  6. (i) allow the app user to change or delete information referred to in section 1(f) above, or (ii) provide instructions to the app user on how to have information referred to in section 1(f) above in the app changed or deleted;

  7. make any changes requested by the app user under section1(i) within 14 days of a request being made;

  8. shield the last name, phone number and email address of the driver from the passenger;

  9. shield the last name, phone number and email address of the passenger from the driver;

  10. not charge or advertise “free rides” or other transportation discounts as an incentive for persons to download the app without written approval of the Board;

  11. not charge a fee from a passenger for using a particular payment method;

  12. not charge a fee for use of the app;

  13. not replace telephone dispatch service, if the licensee operates a taxi service, without the approval of the Board; and

  14. not accept payment for fares even if the app calculates fares.

  15. The app may give a passenger the option to receive communication by voice communication or a digital text format that is compatible with third-party accessibility apps.
  16. The Personal Information Protection Act governs personal information collected in an app.
  17. A person registering on an app or providing credit card information in an app does not establish an “active account” for the purposes of the limited reverse trip authority term and condition.
Taxi CamerasTaxi camera equipment may only be installed and operated in vehicles when the licensee is in compliance with applicable taxi camera rules, standards and orders of the Passenger Transportation Board.
Taxi Bill of Rights

A taxi bill of rights may only be displayed in vehicles when the licensee:

  1. has received written approval of the Board to operate a taxi bill of rights program, and
  2. (b) is in compliance with applicable taxi bill of rights rules, standards and orders of the Passenger Transportation Board
Transfer of a LicenceThis special authorization may not be assigned or transferred except with the approval of the Board pursuant to section 30 of the Passenger Transportation Act.


 

Manjinder Singh HAYRE

Alberni District United Cabs Association

Appendix 3: Data Requirements

Data Requirements, effective September 3, 2019, are applicable.

Appendix 4: Rates and Rules

The following Board rules are applicable:

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