§ 49. Mr. Palmerasked the Minister of Transport if he will take steps to extend the legislation permitting rate-aided concessionary fares to old-age pensioners on municipal transport services to include cases where the local authority is the principal shareholder in a company-run transport undertaking.
§ Mr. Tom FraserNo. The arrangements for rate-aided travel concessions on municipal buses were not extended to company undertakings for the reasons which were explained during the passage of the Travel Concessions Act, 1964.