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Tramway

[1989 Ed.

59. Offences concerning passengers

Any person who—

(a) while travelling or after having travelled in any car, avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare; or

(b) having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such car beyond such distance and does not pay or tender the additional fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof; or

(c) knowingly or wilfully refuses or neglects, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such car,

shall be liable to a fine of $100.

(Replaced 5 of 1924 Schedule. Amended 32 of 1946 s. 7)

60. Power to detain persons who commit offences

It shall be lawful for any officer or servant of the company, and for any person called by him to his assistance, to seize any person whom such officer or servant may have reasonable grounds for believing to have committed any offence against this Ordinance or against any rule made thereunder, and to detain such person until he can be handed over to a police officer, and any police officer to whom any person is so handed over shall detain any such person until he can conveniently be brought before a magistrate:

Provided that it shall be lawful for any police officer in his discretion to release such person upon being furnished by such person with his true name and true address in the Colony.

61. Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on tramway

(Replaced 34 of 1915 s. 6)

No person shall be entitled to carry or to require to be carried on the tramway any dangerous goods as defined by virtue of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (Cap.295), or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, and every person who sends by the tramway any such goods without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the vessel or package containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to the book-keeper or other servant with whom the same are left, at the time of such sending, shall be liable to a fine of $100, and it shall be lawful for the company to refuse to take any parcel that it may suspect to contain any such dangerous goods or require the same to be opened to ascertain the fact.

(Amended 30 of 1911 s. 10; 50 of 1911; 51 of 1911; 1 of 1912 Schedule; 2 of 1912 Schedule; 43 of 1912; G.N.246 of 1913 Supp. Schedule; 5 of 1924 s. 13 & Schedule; 33 of 1939 Schedule)

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