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Dyma’r fersiwn wreiddiol (fel y’i gwnaed yn wreiddiol).
Fare-paying passengers on school buses
46Fare-paying passengers on school buses
(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, a local education authority may—
(a)use a school bus, when it is being used to provide free school transport, to carry as fare-paying passengers persons other than those for whom the free school transport is provided;
(b)use a school bus belonging to the authority, when it is not being used to provide free school transport, to provide a local bus service;
and sections 6, 8, 9, 12(1) and 22 of this Act shall not apply to a school bus belonging to a local education authority in the course of its use by the authority in accordance with this subsection.
(2)Subsection (1) above does not affect the duties of a local education authority in relation to the provision of free school transport or authorise a local education authority to make any charge for the carriage of a pupil on a journey which he is required to make in the course of his education at a school maintained by such an authority.
(3)In this section—
" free school transport" means transport provided by a local education authority in pursuance of arrangements under section 55(1) of the [1944 c. 31.] Education Act 1944 for the purpose of facilitating the attendance of pupils at a place of education;
" local bus service " means a stage carriage service other than a service as regards which the condition specified in section 2(3)(a) of this Act is satisfied;
" school bus ", in relation to a local education authority, means a motor vehicle which is used by that authority to provide free school transport.
(4)In the application of this section to Scotland—
(a)for the references to a local education authority there shall be substituted references to an education authority;
(b)in subsection (2) above for " maintained by " there shall be substituted " under the management of "; and
(c)in subsection (3) above for the definition of " free school transport" there shall be substituted—
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