AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MOTOR OMNIBUS FARES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 22 of 1985

The Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations (the “principal Regulations”) prescribe the fares to be charged by the Commonwealth’s bus service in Canberra.  The Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations (Amendment) amend those Regulations to give effect to new fares and fare arrangements for the bus service.

Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall come into effect on 1 September 1985.

Regulation 2 deals with interpretation.

Regulation 3 amends the definition of “peak period journey” in regulation 3 of the principal Regulations to include a journey which commences at or after 4.30 pm but not later than 6 pm on a week day.

Regulation 4 repeals regulation 5 of the principal Regulations and inserts new regulations 5 and 5A which provide as follows:

•	regulation 5 provides that the fare for a child, a school student, a tertiary student, or immigrant student or a student nurse shall be 40 cents a section for a peak period journey and 30 cents a section for any other journey; and
•	regulation 5A provides that the fare to be charged on a route contained wholly within the Division of City is 20 cents.

Regulation 5 provides for increases in fares as follows:

•	peak hour journeys				from $0.70 to $0.80
	(per section)-regulation (a)
•		concession weekly ticket			from $3.40 to $3.70
	- regulation 6AA
•		monthly ticket					from $35.00 to $38.00
	- regulation 6B(1)
•		concession monthly ticket			from $12.60 to $14.00
	regulation 6B(3)
•		quarterly ticket				from $29.00 to $32.00
	- regulation 6C
•		book of 10 tickets				from $5.60 to $6.10
	- regulation 6D(1)(a)
•		book of 20 tickets				from $11.20 to $12.20
	regulation 6D(1)(b)
•		book of 50 tickets				from $28.00 to $30.50
	- regulation 6D(1)(c)
•		book of 10 tickets				from $2.50 to $2.75
	(for prescribed persons)
	- regulation 6D(3)(a)
•		book of 20 tickets (for				from $5.00 to $5.50
	prescribed persons)
	- regulation 6D(3)(b)
•		book of 50 tickets				from $12.50 to $13.75
	(for prescribed persons)
	- regulation 6D(3)(c)
•		pensioners, per section			from $0.30 to $0.40
	(off peak)
	- regulation 9(1)(a)