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REGULATION OF RAILWAYS ACT 1889 - SECT 5

Penalty for avoiding payment of fare.

5.(1) Every passenger by a railway shall, on request by an officer or servant
of a railway company, either produce, and if so requested deliver up, a ticket
showing that his fare is paid, or pay his fare from the place whence he
started, or give the officer or servant his name and address; and in case of
default shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [#25].

(2) If a passenger having failed either to produce, or if requested to deliver
up, a ticket showing that his fare is paid, or to pay his fare, refuses, on
request by an officer or servant of a railway company, to give his name and
address, any officer of the company or any constable may detain him until he
can be conveniently brought before some justice or otherwise discharged by due
course of law.

(3) If any person

(a)Travels or attempts to travel on a railway without having previously paid
his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof; or

(b)Having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully
proceeds by train beyond that distance without previously paying the
additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment
thereof; or

(c)Having failed to pay his fare, gives in reply to a request by an officer of
a railway company a false name or address,

(4) The liability of an offender to punishment under this section shall not
prejudice the recovery of any fare payable by him.

© 1889 Crown Copyright

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