Valid ticket required for travel
77A Valid ticket required for travel
A person must not travel, or attempt to travel, on a public passenger vehicle or train unless the person (or someone accompanying the person) holds a valid ticket for the person’s travel.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
This clause does not apply in the case of a person who does not hold a ticket if the person—
boards a bus at a bus stop, a ferry at a ferry wharf or a train at a station where, at all relevant times before the person boarded, there were no facilities available for the issue of an appropriate ticket, or
the person is a child of or under 3 years of age.
Subclause (2)(a) does not apply if the appropriate ticket is a smartcard.
In this clause, hold a ticket means be able to produce the ticket on request.
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