Commentary on Sections Schedule 1: The London free travel scheme
35.This Schedule amends Schedule 16 to the 1999 Act to ensure that all eligible residents in England, on production of the required permit, are given bus travel concessions as part of the London reserve free travel scheme if that scheme is in operation (see paragraph 24 above). It also allows for the current ‘additional’ concessions to London residents to be preserved, in the same way that residents of local authority areas outside London may benefit from added local concessions offered under discretionary travel concession schemes set up by local authorities under section 93 of the 1985 Act.