Bee Card terms and conditions are changing
24 January 2025 - 10:45 amThe Bee Scheme is updating its expiry terms and conditions on 27 February 2025 inpreparation for Motu Move, a new ticketing and payment solution.
Motu Move is rolling out region-by-region offering new ways to pay for public transport in New Zealand. This means fair and consistent conditions need to be set for the expiry of Bee Cards for all Bee regions.
The Bee Card will remain active in the Horizons Region for much of 2025. At this stage, the Bee Card is set to be replaced by Motu Move on our services at the end of 2025. We will provide more updates on exact timing closer to the time. To learn more about Motu Move, visit motumove.govt.nz.
To read all Bee Card terms and conditions, visit the Bee Card website.
What's changing?
The expiry of Bee Cards and Value.
Reference number | Current Terms and Conditions | Changed Terms and Conditons |
68 | When the Bee Scheme ends, Scheme Expiry, you will not be able to use Bee Cards and the Value on them, nor Tickets, for the Bee Scheme. | When the Bee Scheme ends with respect to a Council, Scheme Expiry, you will not be able to use Bee Cards, the Value on them, nor Tickets issued by that Council anywhere the Bee Scheme still operates. |
69 | At Scheme Expiry we must provide a means by which you can use BeeC ard Value but not Tickets after Scheme Expiry for Transport Services similar to those available under the Bee Scheme, which may be confined to such of our cities and regions as you would normally use Transport Services in, and which may have a time limit for use of notless than three months from Scheme Expiry. | Before Scheme Expiry, each Council must provide a reasonable opportunity to use remaining Bee Card Value and Tickets in the area the Bee Scheme is expiring. To avoid doubt, you are not entitled to a refund for unused Bee Card Value or Tickets at Scheme Expiry, subject to clauses 34 and 35. |
70 | Before doing either of these things we may require you to first: return the applicable Bee Card; and if the Bee Card is registered, prove to our reasonable satisfaction that you are the person to whom it is registered; or otherwise, prove to our reasonable satisfaction that you are the person who paid for the Bee Card Value. | Remove no longer relevant. |
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