AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

MOTOR OMNIBUS SERVICES ORDINANCE 1955-1973
COMMONWEALTH MOTOR OMNIBUS FARES REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1973

	The proposed amendments of the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations will enable a person who is in receipt of a war service pension to have the benefit of omnibus concession fares.  A person who is presently entitled to an omnibus concession fare will retain that entitlement.

	The proposed Regulations will exempt from the payment of omnibus fares a blind person and an attendant to a blind person.  At present not all incapacitated returned soldiers are exempt from payment of omnibus fares.  The proposed Regulations will extend this entitlement to all incapacitated returned soldiers.

	The proposed Regulations will give effect to Government policy by deleting a reference to the word “Commonwealth” and replacing it, where appropriate, by reference to the word “Australia” and will also reflect certain functional changes within the Department of the Capital Territory.