THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 2, 1909.
infringing this regulation after being warned to desist by any railway official or passenger such person in addition to incurring the liability above mentioned may be removed by any such official from any such carriage and from the premises appertaining to the railway and shall forfeit his fare.
or nuisance.
42. Any person who shall be in a state of intoxication Penalty for or be insufficiently or indecently clad or who shall commit intoxication any nuisance or act of indecency in any railway carriage or upon any part of the premises appertaining to a railway or who shall wilfully and without lawful excuse interfere with the comfort of any passenger on the railway shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months or to both; and in addition to such liability the offender may be removed by any railway official from any such carriage and also from the premises appertaining to the railway and shall forfeit his fare.
43. Any passenger may be directed by a station master Passengers
may be guard or other railway official to enter and travel in any directed as to carriage or compartment which such railway official may the carriage indicate not being of a lower class than that for which he in which has paid his fare and any passenger refusing or neglecting they shall to conform to such direction may be removed by any rail travel. way official from the premises appertaining to the railway and shall forfeit his fare.
or carriage.
44. If any special carriage or portion of a carriage or Penalty for any private room or apartment shall be provided for the entering exclusive use of females any male person who without private room lawful excuse shall enter such carriage or portion of a carriage or any such room or apartment knowing the same to be appropriated as aforesaid or shall remain therein after having been informed of its exclusive appropriation or if any special carriage or compartment has been reserved for the private use of any person or persons and anyone without lawful excuse shall enter such carriage or compartment knowing the same to be so reserved or remain therein after being requested to leave or if any person who has obtained a ticket of one class shall knowingly and wilfully refuse or neglect to leave any room or place set apart for passengers of a higher class such person may be forthwith removed therefrom and also from the premises appertaining to the railway by any railway official and shall on summary con- vietion be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and shall forfeit his fare.
45. If any person shall fail to pay on demand any sum Remedy for due for the conveyance of any goods on a railway it shall non-payment be lawful for the Manager to detain all or any part of such of the car- goods, or if the same shall have been removed from the riage of
goods. premises appertaining to the railway any other goods of such person which shall then be on the railway, or shall there- after come into the possession of the railway administration, and it shall be lawful for the Manager after reasonable notice to such person to sell by public auction a sufficient quantity of such goods to realise the sum payable as afore- said and all charges and expenses of such detention and sale and out of the proceeds of the sale to retain the sum so payable together with the charges and expenses afore- said, rendering the surplus if any of the money arising by such sale and such of the goods as shall remain unsold to the person entitled thereto; or the Manager may recover any such sum by action at law. The goods of passengers Remedy for may also be detained and sold and the proceeds disposed of as above provided for non-payment of the fare due by them, of fare.
non-payment
given on
46. The owner or person having the care of any goods Written which shall have been carried upon a railway or shall be account of brought to the premises appertaining to a railway for the goods to be purpose of being carried on the railway shall on demand by demand. any railway official deliver to such official an exact account in writing signed by him of the number or quantity and description of such goods. This provision shall not apply to passenger's luggage,
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