AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 4 of 1983

Regulation 1 of the Motor Omnibus Services Regulations (Amendment) 1983 amends the Motor Omnibus Services Regulations to clarify the position of the presentation of period tickets in lieu of cash or single journey tickets.

Regulation 1 includes in the definition of “period ticket” a “weekly ticket” which had previously been omitted.  This amendment relieves the holder of a weekly ticket from the requirement of exhibiting on demand the ticket issued to him for the journey as required by Regulation 16.

Regulation 2 deletes current Regulation 15(3) which exempts a passenger from paying cash fares if a period ticket or book of tickets has been purchased.  Holders of period tickets are under no legal obligation to pay “the fare otherwise applicable” if they hold a current period ticket or book of tickets and produce this to the driver of an omnibus when they travel on an omnibus.