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Transport Administration Amendment
(CountryLink Pensioner Booking Fee
Abolition) Bill 2009
No , 2009
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Transport Administration Act 1988 to abolish booking fees on
the use of pensioner travel vouchers and passes on CountryLink rail services.
Transport Administration Amendment (CountryLink Pensioner Booking Fee
Clause 1 Abolition) Bill 2009
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the Transport Administration Amendment (CountryLink 3
Pensioner Booking Fee Abolition) Act 2009. 4
2 Commencement 5
This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act. 6
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Transport Administration Amendment (CountryLink Pensioner Booking Fee
Abolition) Bill 2009
Amendment of Transport Administration Act 1988 No 109 Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment of Transport Administration 1
Act 1988 No 109 2
[1] Section 85 Orders fixing charges 3
Insert "(not being a CountryLink pensioner booking fee prohibited by section 4
85A)" after "reasonable amount" in section 85 (4) (a). 5
[2] Section 85A 6
Insert after section 85: 7
85A No booking fees for pensioners 8
(1) Despite the provisions of this Division or any other Act, or of any 9
order under this Division, RailCorp must not charge any 10
pensioner booking fee for travel on a railway service provided by 11
CountryLink. 12
(2) An order under this Division must not impose any pensioner 13
booking fee for travel on a railway service provided by 14
CountryLink. 15
(3) To the extent that it does impose any pensioner booking fee for 16
travel on a railway service provided by CountryLink, an order is 17
of no effect. 18
(4) This section extends to any order in force immediately before the 19
commencement of this section. 20
(5) In this section: 21
CountryLink means the business unit formed by RailCorp to 22
operate non-metropolitan long-distance railway services and 23
other transport services. 24
NSW/ACT pensioner means any of the following persons whose 25
ordinary place of residence is in New South Wales or the 26
Australian Capital Territory: 27
(a) a person who receives a pension, benefit or allowance 28
under Chapter 2 of the Social Security Act 1991 of the 29
Commonwealth, or a service pension under Part III of the 30
Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth, 31
and who is the holder of a pensioner concession card 32
issued by or on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, 33
(b) a person who receives a pension from the Commonwealth 34
Department of Veterans' Affairs as: 35
(i) the widow or widower of a member of the 36
Australian Defence or Peacekeeping Forces, or 37
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Transport Administration Amendment (CountryLink Pensioner Booking Fee
Abolition) Bill 2009
Schedule 1 Amendment of Transport Administration Act 1988 No 109
(ii) the unmarried mother of a deceased unmarried 1
member of either of those Forces, or 2
(iii) the widowed mother of a deceased unmarried 3
member of either of those Forces, 4
and who is the holder of a Transport Concession Card 5
issued by the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' 6
Affairs. 7
pensioner booking fee means a fee, however described, charged 8
for or in relation to a NSW/ACT pensioner booking a railway 9
service provided by CountryLink for travel, using: 10
(a) what would otherwise be a free travel pass, or 11
(b) a concessional travel pass, or 12
(c) a pensioner travel voucher. 13
pensioner travel voucher means a voucher entitling any 14
NSW/ACT pensioner to travel on any railway service or other 15
transport service provided by CountryLink for free. 16
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