TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 88
Free or subsidised railway, bus or ferry travel
TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 88
Free or subsidised railway, bus or ferry travel
88 Free or subsidised railway, bus or ferry travel
(1) The Minister may determine the classes of persons who are entitled to be
issued with a free travel pass or a concessional travel pass by an Authority.
(2) Any person who holds a free travel pass or a concessional travel pass is
entitled to travel free or to the benefit of the concession (as the case
requires) on all services to which the pass applies.
(3) Subject to any
determination by the Minister, the relevant Authority may determine the
conditions for the issue, cancellation and use of free travel passes and
concessional travel passes.
(3A) If the regulations so provide, persons of a
class prescribed by the regulations are not entitled to be issued with a free
travel pass or a concessional travel pass under this section. This subsection
applies despite any determination or direction of the Minister or of an
Authority or the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 .
(4) An Authority may allow a
person who is entitled to a pass under this section to travel free or to
receive the concession (as the case requires) without the necessity of being
issued with the pass.
(5) An Authority is not required to issue passes under
this section in accordance with a determination of the Minister if the amount
of expenditure that the Authority incurs or the amount of the revenue forgone
by the Authority is not reimbursed by payments under section 104EA, unless
required to do so by a direction of the Minister under this Act.
