The Travel Concession Schemes Regulations 1986

PART I GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Travel Concession Schemes Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 14th February 1986.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Transport Act 1985;

“applicant” means a person making an application to which regulations 38 to 48 apply;

“authority” means the authority or authorities responsible for administration of a scheme;

“basic operating costs” means the costs which the operator would incur in providing a service if the concessions were not available on that service;

“concessions” means travel concessions provided or to be provided in accordance with a scheme;

“eligible services” shall be construed in accordance with section 94(4) of the Act;

“fares value”, in relation to journeys, means the aggregate amount of the fares which would have been paid if concessions had not been available;

“operator” means an operator participating in a scheme and includes any person who is prospectively such an operator;

“participation notice” means a notice under section 97(4) of the Act;

“payment day” means any day on which a reimbursement payment is due to be made;

“payment period” means the period to which a reimbursement payment relates;

“reimbursement arrangements” includes the conditions of entitlement of operators to, and the method of determination and manner of payment of, reimbursement in respect of concessions provided under a scheme;

“reimbursement payment” means any payment falling to be made in accordance with section 93(6) of the Act;

“scheme” means a scheme for the provision of travel concessions established under section 93 of the Act;

“standard method” means the method for calculating the amount of reimbursement payments due to operators of eligible services adopted by an authority in accordance with regulation 9(1);

“variation notice” means a notice under section 97(6) of the Act.

(2) References in these Regulations to the date on which a notice is given are, in relation to notices sent by post, references to the date on which the notice is, in accordance with regulation 33(2), deemed to be received at the address to which it is sent.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations except where otherwise expressly provided.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations to estimates or calculations made by an authority in relation to reimbursement payments is a reference to estimates or calculations made by the best practical method available to the authority.