Offences
43 Offences
If any person does or causes or procures to be done any of the following things —
obstructs any officer or servant employed on any railway in the performance of his duty;
damages any railway, or any locomotive, carriage, wagon, rolling‑stock, machinery, material, or thing used upon or belonging to any railway;
defaces the writing or printing on or attached to any board, or any notice authorised to be maintained on any railway, or on or in any railway carriage, rolling‑stock, or railway station;
writes any indecent words or draws any indecent or obscene picture or representation on any part of a railway, or on any railway carriage or rolling‑stock, or on any fences or buildings upon or adjoining any railway, or near to and conspicuous from any railway;
behaves in a violent or offensive manner to the annoyance of others, or is drunk, on any railway or railway premises or in any carriage thereon,
he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable to a penalty of $600.
[Section 43 amended: No. 55 of 1960 s. 10; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 77 of 1980 s. 8; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 78 of 1995 s. 147; No. 19 of 2010 s. 60(4).]
[44. Deleted: No. 40 of 2022 s. 5.]
45. Offences relating to tickets etc.
If any person —
alters any ticket with intent to avoid payment of the proper fare or any part thereof, or to mislead or deceive, or for the purposes of sale; or
sells or transfers, or offers for sale or transfer, any free pass, or permits any person other than the person to whom the same is issued to be in possession of or make use of the same, or travels or attempts to travel with any such free pass, not being the person entitled to use the same; or
sells or transfers, or offers for sale or transfer, a ticket or any portion of a ticket which has been used for the whole or any part of the journey for which the ticket was issued; or travels or attempts to travel with any such ticket, or portion of a ticket, sold or transferred by any person; or
sells or offers for sale any ticket for travel on a service provided by the Authority (an Authority ticket), or any portion of an Authority ticket, not being a person authorised or employed by the Authority to sell the ticket, or purchases or offers to purchase an Authority ticket or any portion of an Authority ticket from a person not authorised or employed by the Authority to sell the ticket;
is brought before a court of summary jurisdiction and charged with having or having had in his possession, either on his person or on or in any premises, any ticket or portion of a ticket which may be reasonably suspected of being unlawfully obtained, and does not give an account to the satisfaction of the court how he came by the same,
he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding $200.
[Section 45 amended: No. 29 of 1907 s. 6; No. 78 of 1948 s. 6; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 77 of 1980 s. 9; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 31 of 2003 s. 115; No. 50 of 2003 s. 68(3); No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 19 of 2010 s. 60(4).]
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