Section 55 Provision of transport and other facilities.C3

A local education authority shall make such arrangements for the provision of transport and otherwise as they consider necessary or as the Secretary of State may direct for the purpose of facilitating the attendance of persons receiving education—

and any transport provided in pursuance of such arrangements shall be provided free of charge.

A local education authority F2may pay the whole or any part, as the authority think fit, of the reasonable travelling expenses of any F3person receiving education at any school F4or any such institution as is mentioned in subsection (1) above for whose transport no arrangements are made under this section.

In considering whether or not they are required by subsection (1) above to make arrangements in relation to a particular F6person, the local education authority shall have regard (amongst other things) to the age of the person and the nature of the route, or alternative routes, which he could reasonably be expected to takeF7and to any wish of his parent for him to be provided with education at a school or institution in which the religious education provided is that of the religion or denomination to which his parent adheres

Arrangements made by a local education authority under subsection (1) above shall make provision—

Regulations under section 8(5) of the Education Act 1980 may require publication, within the meaning of that section, by every local education authority of such information as may be required by the regulations with respect to the authority’s policy and arrangements for provision under this section for persons attending institutions mentioned in subsection (1)(c) or (d) above who are over compulsory school age and who have not attained the age of nineteen years.