{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985/section-105",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985/section-105.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/67",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1985",
  "path": "section/105",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "105",
  "heading": "Travel concessions on services provided by local authorities.",
  "text": "(1) Where the council of any county or district in England and Wales or of any local government area in Scotland , or a combined authority or a combined county authority, are operating any public passenger transport service, they shall have power to provide travel concessions for persons travelling on that service in accordance with a scheme established under section 93 of this Act or in accordance with section 145A(1) or 145B(1) of the Transport Act 2000.\n(2) In respect of travel concessions provided under this section, any such council or authority may, if they think fit, from time to time transfer to the credit of the account of their transport undertaking sums from the general . . . fund or, where that council is the council of any local government area in Scotland, from the general fund (within the meaning of section 93 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973).\n(2A) In subsection (2) above, the reference to the general fund shall be read, in relation to Wales, as a reference to the council fund.\n(3) Sums so transferred must not exceed the cost to the council or authority concerned of providing the concessions or so much of that cost as would not apart from subsection (2) above fall to be met out of the fund there mentioned.\n(4) The power under subsection (1) does not apply to a county or district council where—\n(a) the council is a constituent council of a combined authority or a combined county authority (and here “constituent council” has the meaning given by section 104(11) of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 in relation to a combined authority and section 10(11) of the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023 in relation to a combined county authority), and\n(b) the combined authority or combined county authority has completed its first full financial year.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(1)(2) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/974, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(1) inserted (29.4.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 21(a) (with s. 102)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(1) substituted (E.W.) (1.6.2001 for E. and 1.4.2002 for W.) by 2000 c. 38, s. 161, Sch. 11 para. 19; S.I. 2000/3229, art. 2, Sch. Pt. IV (with arts. 3, 4); S.I. 2001/2788, art. 3, Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(1) substituted (E.W.) (17.10.2007 for specified purposes, 1.4.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 (c. 13), s. 15(1), Sch. 2 para. 5; S.I. 2007/2799, arts. 2, 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(2) inserted (29.4.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 21(b) (with s. 102)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word repealed by S.I. 1990/1285, art. 2, Sch. Part I para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 105(2A) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(1), Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 39(9) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 105(3) inserted (29.4.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 21(c) (with s. 102)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 105(4) inserted (29.4.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 21(d) (with s. 102)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 103-105: functions made exercisable concurrently (E.) (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 14(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 5: functions made exercisable (E.) (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 14(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "asp/2001/2",
      "affecting_title": "Transport (Scotland) Act 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/67/section/105",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:49.449968+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}