What is a special circumstance student bus pass?
A special circumstance bus pass provides adult students who meet the eligibility criteria with discounted or free travel on one or more fare charging bus services between home and school.
Adult student travel applies between 6:00am and 7:00pm on school days only.
Discounted travel
You may be eligible if you are:
- aged 18 or older at 1 January in the year of study; and
- a full time student (600+ hours per year) enrolled at an education facility recognised by the Department of Education, TasTAFE, University of Tasmania or College of English; and
- studying at a level that is no higher than is offered to any year 11 or year 12 student at a senior secondary college,
and you have not had the opportunity to complete the equivalent of two years post year 10 study due to circumstances beyond your control, including:
- delayed entry at the start of your school life; or
- interrupted education progress due to disability, illness, family circumstances, frequent changes to school, or other circumstances; or
- the time required to complete two equivalent years of post year 10 training and education has been extended because of disability; or
- late completion compared to other people in your age group due to initial overseas or interstate enrolment; or
- you have humanitarian entrant status.
Free travel
You may be eligible for a Special Circumstance Bus Pass that enables you to travel for free, to and from school, if you are the holder of a current concession card or listed as a dependant on the card.
Accepted concession cards are:
- Health Care Card (HCC)
- Pensioner Concession Card (PCC)
- Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Pension Concession Card.