Mask Exemption Card Package
Mask Exemption Card
People who cannot wear face masks on public transport due to a disability have been urged to download an exemption card for when they travel. The card indicates you are exempt from wearing a mask to a person of authority.
Self Certify as being exempt to avoid a fine or denied travel.
- 100% Totally tamperproof Credit sized card personalised with your name, plus 75mm x 25mm Badge - Lanyard & Holder
- Instant Peace of mind
- Easily Identified
- Avoid Conflict
Public Transport - wearing a mask?
Our badges are not designed to be proof of exemption from wearing a face mask, but instead a way to communicate disabled people’s exempt status to others.
Rules apply to the following methods of Transport
- Bus or coach
- Train or tram
- Ferry or hovercraft (or other vessel)
- Aircraft
- Cable car
According to the official Government guidance the following groups are not required to wear a face covering while using public transport:
- A child under the age of 11
- An employee of the transport operator, when they are acting in the course of their employment
- Any other person providing services to the transport operator, under arrangements made with the transport operator, who is providing those services
- A constable or police community support officer acting in the course of their duty
- An emergency responder such as a paramedic or fire officer acting in the course of their duty
- An official, for example a border force officer, acting in the course of their duties
- If you are allocated a cabin, berth or other similar accommodation, at any time when you are in that accommodation, either alone, or only with members of your own household or a linked household
- If you are on board public transport but remain in your private vehicle, for example on a car ferry
There are also a series of factors which the Government describes as a "reasonable excuse" which also mean you don’t have to wear a mask:
- If you have a physical or mental illness or impairment, or a disability that means you cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering
- If putting on, wearing or removing a face covering would cause you severe distress
- If you are travelling with, or providing assistance to, someone who relies on lip reading to communicate
- If you are travelling to avoid injury or escape the risk of harm, and you do not have a face covering with you
- If you need to remove it during your journey to avoid harm or injury or the risk of harm or injury to yourself or others
- If you need to eat, drink, or take medication you can remove your face covering
- If you are asked to remove your face covering by a police officer or other official, for example to check your railcard
Example - Mask Exemption Card Package
Our badges are not designed to be proof of exemption from wearing a face mask, but instead a way to communicate disabled people’s exempt status to others.


