Paragraph 2 I1I2

In section 98 (travel concession schemes: further provisions with respect to participation notices), after subsection (4) insert—

“(4A)

But if the participation notice was served on the person by one or more authorities in England only—

(a)

subsection (3) above shall have effect as if for “twenty-eight days beginning with the date of the participation notice” there were substituted “ fifty-six days beginning with the date provided for in relation to the participation notice by virtue of section 97(5)(a) above ”; and

(b)

subsection (4) above shall have effect as if for paragraph (a) there were substituted—

“(a)

if the person is required by the participation notice to give a prescribed number of days' notice (or, if no number of days is prescribed, seven days' notice), at least that number of days before the date of the notice given to the Secretary of State under subsection (3) above; or”.”