Australian Capital Territory

ROAD TRANSPORT (PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES) MAXIMUM FARES FOR REGULAR ROUTE SERVICES DETERMINATION 2002

Disallowable Instrument DI 2002-67

made under the

Road Transport (Public Passenger Services) Act 2001, s23 (Regular route services – power to determine maximum fares)

1.	I REVOKE determination No. 148 of 2001 dated 25 June 2001 and notified in Special Gazette No. S38 made under the Motor Omnibus Service Act 1955 (repealed on 
1 December 2001).

2.	I DETERMINE that the maximum fares payable on regular route services provided by ACTION Authority shall be as specified in the Schedule.

This Determination commences on 1 July 2002

Bill Wood
Minister for Urban Services
20 June 2002

THIS IS PAGE 1 OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE DETERMINATION MADE UNDER THE ROAD TRANSPORT (PUBLIC PASSENGER SERVICES) ACT 2001 ON THE 20th .DAY OF JUNE 2002.

PART A:  FARES SCHEDULE

Ticket type	Fare	Fare for a Concession Card Holder 	Fare for a Student 	Fare for an Exempt Person 	
Cash 
	$2.40	$1.30	Not applicable	$0	
Transfer (cash) 
	$2.40	$1.30	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Faresaver 10 
	$21.00	$10.50	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Student Faresaver 10 	Not applicable	Not applicable	$7.50
	Not applicable	
Daily 
	$6.00	$3.00	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Shoppers off-peak daily 
	$3.50	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Concession off-peak daily 
	Not applicable	$1.30	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Weekly 
	$23.50	$11.75	Not applicable	Not applicable	
Monthly 
	$80.50	$40.20	Not applicable	Not applicable	
School term ticket
	Not applicable	Not applicable	$55.00	Not applicable	

PART B:  INTERPRETATION

Transfer (cash) ticket – when purchased, upon boarding a regular route service, allows a person to transfer to another bus free of charge provided this occurs within 60 minutes of first validating the ticket. 

Faresaver 10 ticket – provides 10 rides on regular route services and includes a transfer free of further charge to another bus or buses provided this occurs within 60 minutes of validating the ticket on the first bus.  

Student Faresaver 10 ticket – provides 10 rides on regular route services within the period of a school term not including a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday and, for a tertiary student, within the period of the tertiary institution semester at which the student is enrolled but not including a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday.

Each Cash, Transfer (cash), Faresaver 10, and Student Faresaver 10 ticket applies to a journey to the terminus of the route for which the ticket was purchased.

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Daily ticket – applies on the day when the ticket is validated and provides unlimited journeys on regular route services.  

Shoppers off-peak daily ticket – applies on the day when the ticket is validated and provides journeys on weekdays between 9.00 am to 4.30 pm and after 6 pm, and all day Saturday, Sunday and public holidays on regular route services. 

Concession off-peak daily ticket – applies on the day when the ticket is validated and provides unlimited journeys on weekdays between 9.00 am to 4.30 pm and after 6 pm, and all day Saturday, Sunday and public holidays on regular route services.

Weekly ticket – provides unlimited travel on regular route services for a period of seven (7) days commencing on the day the ticket is first validated.

Monthly ticket – provides unlimited travel on regular route services during a period of a month commencing on the day the ticket is first validated.

School term ticket – provides a student with unlimited travel within a period of a school term but not including a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday. 

A Concession Card Holder is: 

(i)	a person who is the holder of a card issued by Centrelink or the Department of Veterans’ Affairs commonly known as a “Pensioner Concession Card”, or an ACTION Concession Card issued by Centrelink based on the person holding a “Health Care Card Low Income” or a “Health Care Card” and receives one or more of the following categories of pension and allowance types:
•	Age Pension
•	Bereavement Allowance
•	Carer Payment
•	Disability Support Pension
•	Mature Age Allowance
•	Mature Age Partner Allowance
•	Newstart Mature Age Allowance
•	Newstart
•	Partner Allowance
•	Parenting Payment (Single)
•	Parenting Payment (Partnered);
•	Special Benefit
•	Sickness Allowance
•	Wife Pension (age)
•	Wife Pension (Disability Support Pension)
•	Wife Pension (Disability Wage Supplement)
•	Widow Pension
•	Widow Allowance
•	Youth Allowance

(ii)	a person who holds a Department of Veterans’ Affairs Gold Card 

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(iii)	for a concession off-peak daily ticket only – in addition to the persons at (i) and (ii) above, a senior where a person who is an ACT resident, has attained the age of 60 years and has been issued with an ACT Senior’s Card.  

(iv)	for a concession cash, concession transfer (cash), concession faresaver10 only – in addition to the persons at (i) and (ii) above, a primary school student and a secondary, college or full time tertiary student holding appropriate student identification.

A Student is a primary school student or a student who holds an appropriate student card identifying the person as:

(i)	a secondary school or college student ;

(ii)	an international student; or

(iii)	a full time tertiary student, not including a person who is a member of the Defence Force, who attends an accredited education institution and undertakes at least 15 hours per week class time. 

An Exempt Person is:

(i)	a person who holds a Department of Veterans’ Affairs Gold Card embossed with TPI or EDA and, where that person is accompanied by an attendant, the attendant; 

(ii)	a World War I veteran; 

(iii)	a World War I veteran’s spouse, or a person who was, at the time of the veteran’s death, living with the veteran as the veteran’s spouse on a permanent and bona fide basis although not legally married to the veteran;

(iv)	a person wearing or displaying war service medals on the 25th day of April in any year;

(v)	a person who has been assessed as legally blind and holds an ACTION vision impaired annual ticket and where that person is accompanied by an attendant, the attendant; 

(vi)	a person who has not attained the age of five years, is not occupying a seat in the bus and is in the care and custody of a person apparently over the age of eight years, who assures the driver or inspector that the first mentioned person has not attained the age of five years;

(vii)	a person who is a sworn member of the ACT Police (Australian Federal Police) and in their official capacity who holds evidence identifying him or her as such a person;

(viii)	a person employed by ACTION who is in uniform or holds written evidence, of a kind approved by the Chief Executive, ACTION identifying him or her as such a person.