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Bus services provided or secured—

(a)

by an Education and Library Board pursuant to arrangements made under Article 52 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986f1; and

(b)

for persons who are elderly or disabled,

and in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied—

(i)

seats on the vehicles by means of which the service is provided are normally available to members of the general public and the service is regularly used by such members;

(ii)

the stopping places (other than those to or from which the service is mainly provided) are situated at locations where they are likely to be used with reasonable frequency by members of the general public;

(iii)

such members are able to make a single journey between any two stopping places upon payment of a fare which is not a deliberate deterrent to their use of the service;

(iv)

such members are able to pay the fare at a place and in a manner which are not a deliberate deterrent to their use of the service; and

(v)

arrangements are made which afford members of the general public a reasonable opportunity to inform themselves of the existence of the service, the times of its operation, and the places which it serves.

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)