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PART IV, TRANSPORT - continued
Miscellaneous and supplementary - continued

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Requirements as to uniformity.     190. - (1) Arrangements under section 187(1) above for travel concessions for London residents meet the requirements of this section as to uniformity if they-
 
 
    (a) make the same provision, for all eligible London residents of the same category, with respect to the benefit of any travel concession granted to those residents under the arrangements and the periods during which it is available;
 
    (b) make the enjoyment of the benefit of any travel concession granted under the arrangements conditional on the production, by any person seeking to travel under that concession, of a travel concession permit issued to him in accordance with the arrangements; and
 
    (c) make the same provision with respect to the period of validity of all travel concession permits issued in accordance with the arrangements to eligible London residents of the same category,
  whether or not, in any other respects, the arrangements make different provision for different cases to which they apply.
 
      (2) References in subsection (1) above to the benefit of a travel concession are references to the waiver or reduction of any fare or charge to which the arrangements in question apply, as distinct from any terms, limitations or conditions applicable to that waiver or reduction in accordance with the arrangements.
 
      (3) For the requirements of this section as to uniformity to be met it is sufficient that those requirements are met in relation to each description of services comprising the London Local Travel Network individually.
 
      (4) The reference in subsection (3) above to a description of services is a reference to the descriptions mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 189(3) above.
 
      (5) In this Chapter "travel concession permit" means, in relation to a travel concession granted under or by virtue of this Chapter, a document in any form indicating that the person to whom it is issued is a person entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter to receive the concession in question.
 
  CHAPTER VIII
  PENALTY FARES
Penalty fares.     191. Schedule 13 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of providing for the payment of penalty fares in the circumstances set out in that Schedule.
 
  CHAPTER IX
  TRANSPORT USERS' COMMITTEES
Abolition of the London Regional Passengers' Committee.     192. - (1) Section 40 of the London Regional Transport Act 1984 (which established the London Regional Passengers' Committee) shall cease to have effect.
 
      (2) Any appointment to the London Regional Passengers' Committee in pursuance of that section shall cease to have effect.
 
 
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