β¨ Railway Regulations Text
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 793
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Tickets, whether single or return, shall be used
by passengers only to convey them to the station
named thereon, orto a station short of that destination.
In no case, however, shall any "cheap excursion"
ticket be used for any other station than that for
which such ticket is issued. Any person using or
attempting to use a ticket in violation of the provi-
sions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
No person will be allowed to break his journey
by stopping at any intermediate station, and there-
after proceeding by a subsequent train with the same
ticket, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person, not duly authorized by the General
Manager, who shall sell or offer for sale any free pass
ticket or portion of a return ticket, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
No male passenger shall be allowed to enter any
waiting-room or carriage set apart for the accom-
modation of females; and any person remaining in
any such room or carriage after being warned to
leave the same shall be liable to a penalty not ex-
ceeding ten pounds. -
Any person entering a carriage or compart-
ment of a carriage containing the full number of
persons which it is constructed to convey, except with
the consent of the persons in such carriage or com-
partment, and refusing to go out when requested by
the Guard or other officer of the railway to do so,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds. -
Any person, not being a railway servant, who
shall open any carriage for the purpose of entering
the same after the tickets have been examined and
the carriage doors locked by the person appointed for
that purpose, or who shall let himself out of any
carriage or truck, or attempt to do so, at any station
or at any time during the journey, by the use of a
private key or other instrument, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
No person shall, without the consent of the
General Manager or other authorized officer, travel
outside a carriage on any railway under any circum-
stances, or get into or upon or quit any railway
carriage when the train is in motion; and any person
doing so, or attempting to do so, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Loaded firearms are on no account to be taken
into or placed upon any carriage, wagon, truck, or
other vehicle forming or intended to form a train, or
any portion of a train, on the railway; and every
person so offending shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any of the rail-
way sheds, offices, or waiting-rooms; and any person
found so smoking shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
Smoking is strictly prohibited in any railway
carriage except those set apart for the purpose; and
any person found smoking in a carriage not set apart
for the purpose shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding
ten pounds, and may be removed from the carriage
by any railway servant. -
Dogs will be conveyed and charged for accord-
ing to printed conditions, but will not on any account
be allowed to accompany passengers in the carriages.
Any person persisting in taking a dog into a passenger
carriage shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
ten pounds. -
No gratuity shall be, under any circumstances,
allowed to be received by a railway servant, on pain
of dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
to any such servant shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person writing any indecent words on
any part of a railway, or the premises thereof, shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person making use of insulting or abusive
language to any railway officer or servant while in
the execution of his duty, or obstructing any such
officer while in the execution of his duty, or making
use of indecent or blasphemous language in any
carriage or upon any railway platform or premises,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. -
If any person omit to shut and fasten any gate
or slip panel set up at either side of the railway for
the accommodation of the owners or occupiers of the
adjoining lands, as soon as he and the carriage, cattle,
or other animals under his care have passed through
the same, he shall forfeit for every such offence any
sum not exceeding ten pounds. -
Any person throwing stones, gravel, timber,
or any rubbish on a railway, or at any engine, car-
riage, or wagon thereon; or causing or allowing any
animal to wander on a railway which is fenced on
both sides; or doing any act which may obstruct the
working of a railway, or may endanger the lives of
persons travelling thereon; or driving or attempting
to drive any vehicle or animal across a level crossing
or elsewhere on a railway when an engine or any
carriages or wagons on the railway are approaching
and within a mile from such crossing; or moving
any part of the rolling stock on any railway, or leav-
ing the same on any part of a railway, not having
lawful authority so to do; or attempting to do, or
counselling or aiding any other person in doing, any
of the things mentioned in this section, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, in
addition to any penalty to which he may otherwise
be liable for doing any of the said things. -
If any person deface the writings on any boards,
or any notices authorized to be maintained on a rail-
way or any station thereof, or any rolling stock
thereon, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum
not exceeding ten pounds, and an additional sum
equal to the cost incurred in repairing any such
damage. -
Any person trespassing upon any part of a
railway, not being a station platform or crossing, or
other part to which the public are allowed access by
law, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
pounds. -
The General Manager shall publish the short
particulars of the several offences for which any
penalty is imposed by these or any other by-laws of
the railway, and of the amount of every such
penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be
painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted
thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or
affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal
station of the railway; and, where any such
penalties are of local application, shall cause such
boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in
the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties
are applicable or have reference; and such particu-
lars shall be renewed as often as the same or any
part thereof is obliterated or destroyed. -
Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
station, being in a state of intoxication, or committing
any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and to re-
moval from such carriage or station as soon as shall
be practicable. -
No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney car-
riage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall
ply for hire within the railway premises without
a license in writing from the General Manager or
other authorized officer; and any person offending
contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding ten pounds. -
No person will be allowed to come upon any rail-
way platform for the purpose of removing any pas-
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By-laws and Regulations for Passenger Traffic on New Zealand Railways
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π Transport & Communications16 November 1876
Ticket usage, journey breaking, smoking restrictions, dog carriage, gratuities, trespassing, passenger conduct, penalties
NZ Gazette 1876, No 62