Applicants who are registered blind or partially sighted with Social Services qualify for a free bus pass.  Hearing impaired people, people with a learning disability or people "with a permanent or substantial disability or illness which severely restricts their mobility" may apply for a pass entitling them to pay a reduced fare.  If successful, the applicant is given a permit which s/he then exchanges for a bus pass from one of the Travel Information Centres (see separate entries).