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The Transport Act 1985 (Extension of Eligibility for Travel Concessions) Order 1986

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4.—(1) In Scotland the following classes of persons are hereby specified as eligible persons, namely—

(a)persons to whom the Secretary of State has refused to grant driving licences or whose driving licences have been revoked by the Secretary of State, in each case pursuant to section 87 of the 1972 Act;

(b)specified companions of any eligible persons or handicapped persons who, in the opinion of the authority or any of the authorities responsible for the administration of the travel concession scheme in question, are so severely disabled or handicapped as to require the assistance of a companion in order to be able to travel on public transport.

(2) A specified companion is only eligible to receive travel concessions when travelling with the eligible person or handicapped person in relation to whom he or she is a specified companion.

(3) In this article, “specified companion” means a person who is identified by an eligible person (who is such otherwise than by reason of being a specified companion) or by a handicapped person as that person's specified companion for the purpose of enabling him or her to make a particular journey on public transport and only one person may be so identified in relation to each such journey made by the eligible person or handicapped person.

(4) In this article, “handicapped person” means a person who is eligible to receive travel concessions under the Concessionary Travel for Handicapped Persons (Scotland) Act 1980(1).

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sections 1 and 2 were amended by the Transport Act 1985, Schedule 7, paragraph 19.

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