Prohibiting people from being on or in a conveyance or facility
64A Prohibiting people from being on or in a conveyance or facility
In this section —
conveyance means a road bus, ferry or railway train involved in the provision of a public passenger transport service by the Authority;
facility means a place associated with the provision of a public passenger transport service provided by the Authority.
For the purposes of this section, an offence is a relevant offence if it —
is an offence specified in subsection (3); and
is an offence committed on or after the day 12 months before the day on which the Public Transport Authority Amendment Act 2008 section 5 comes into operation.
The specified offences are —
an offence under The Criminal Code section 313, 317 or 318(1)(d) or (g) committed on or in a conveyance or facility;
an offence under The Criminal Code section 444 or 445 committed in relation to Authority property, a conveyance or a facility;
an offence under the Government Railways Act 1904 section 43(5) 2 committed on or in a conveyance or facility and involving behaving in a violent or offensive manner to the annoyance of others;
an offence under the Graffiti Vandalism Act 2016 section 5 committed in relation to Authority property, a conveyance or a facility;
an offence under the Public Transport Authority Regulations 2003 regulation 40;
an offence under the Public Transport Authority Regulations 2003 regulation 42 committed when regulation 41(g) was the paragraph relevant to the belief on the grounds of which the offender was advised.
If the chief executive officer proposes to give a person a prohibition order under subsection (5), the chief executive officer must, by written notice, give the offender 14 days beginning on the date of the notice to show cause —
why the order should not be given to the offender; and
why the order should specify circumstances (an exception) in which the offender may be on or in a conveyance or facility despite the person being prohibited from being on or in a conveyance or facility for the period specified in the order.
If a person has been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to —
at least 2 relevant offences committed within a period of 12 months beginning on the day on which the first offence was committed; or
3 or more relevant offences committed within a period of 18 months beginning on the day on which the first offence was committed,
and the offences do not arise from the same acts or circumstances, the chief executive officer may give the person (the offender) an order (a prohibition order), in a form approved in writing by the chief executive officer, prohibiting the offender from being on or in a conveyance or facility for the period and subject to any exception specified in the order.
The period specified in the order —
must not exceed one month if the offender has been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to not more than 2 relevant offences committed within a period of 12 months beginning on the day on which the first offence was committed; and
must not exceed 3 months if the offender has been found guilty of or pleaded guilty to more than 2 relevant offences committed within a period of 18 months beginning on the day on which the first offence was committed.
For the purposes of subsections (5) and (6), if a person is found guilty of or pleads guilty to more than one relevant offence at one hearing, those relevant offences are to be taken to be one relevant offence committed by the person on the date on which the latest of those offences was committed.
On the application of an offender the subject of a prohibition order, the chief executive officer may —
revoke the order; or
make the order subject to an exception; or
amend any exception to which the order is subject.
[Section 64A inserted: No. 42 of 2008 s. 5; amended: No. 16 of 2016 s. 35.]
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