AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES REGULATIONS

AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTOR OMNIBUS FARES REGULATIONS

No. 12 and 13 of 1978

	The Amendments of the Motor Omnibus Services Regulations and the Amendments of the Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations amend the existing Regulations made under the Motor Omnibus Services Ordinance 1955 to implement the balance of a decision to generally increase and restructure bus fares.  The first part of that decision was implemented by the Motor Omnibus Services (Amendment) Ordinance 1978 which amended the Motor Omnibus Services Ordinance 1955.

	The effect of the amendments is –
•	to increase the standard omnibus fare to 30 cents for each section with an additional levy of 5 cents per section, to be charged before 9 am and between 4 pm and 6 pm from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays;
•	to increase the price of ‘Fare go’ tickets in books of tickets from 24 cents to 26 cents;
•	to increase the price of an adult monthly ticket from $14 to $18;
•	to increase the price of a monthly ticket for full time tertiary students from $10 to $12;
•	to increase the fare for school students from 10 cents and reduce the general fare for children from 20 cents to a single fare of 15 cents;
•	to reduce the price of children’s books of tickets from 17 cents to 10 cents per ticket and to enable these to be used for school travel;
•	to introduce a monthly ticket at a cost of $6 and a quarterly ticket at $15 for children and school students;
•	to abolish the existing term tickets for school students; and
•	to enable pensioners to purchase books of tickets, monthly tickets and quarterly tickets at the same concessional rate as children and school students.