1252
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 35

PASSENGERS

34. Railway Employees’ Privilege Tickets

This section is hereby revoked and the following substituted:

34. Railway Employees’ Privilege Tickets

35. Privilege Tickets—Privilege tickets at one-fourth the ordinary fares (section 2), fares as specified in section 5, paragraph 1 (a), sections 7, 11, 13, 14, and 42, or local fares (sections 39 and 40), where applicable, may be issued to railway employees and their wives and children in terms of the State Services Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act 1969 and determinations made thereunder, and the regulations pursuant to the Government Railways Act 1949. Children 4 years of age and over will be charged the adult privilege fare.

36. The Minimum Charge for privilege tickets other than privilege season tickets will be 28c single or return.

37. Privilege Season Tickets, available for 1 month at one-fourth of the fares for monthly season tickets (sections 26, 39, or 40), subject to a minimum charge of $2.64, may be issued to railway employees as provided by the State Services Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act 1969 and determinations made thereunder, and regulations made pursuant to the Government Railways Act 1949.

38. Privilege Ticket Orders—Privilege tickets will be issued only on presentation of the prescribed orders.

39. Change of Route—Passengers holding privilege tickets who desire to travel by an alternative route will be charged at privilege ticket rates for the additional distance, if any, involved. Passengers holding privilege tickets for a longer route may be permitted to travel by a shorter alternative route.

40. Availability—Privilege tickets, except season tickets, will have unlimited availability.

41. Break of Journey—Privilege tickets based on ordinary fares will be subject to the provisions of section 2, paragraph 3. Privilege tickets based on local fares will be subject to the provisions of section 39, paragraph 2 (c), and section 40, paragraph 2 (c).

42. Restrictions on Travel by Specified Trains

This section is hereby revoked and the following substituted:

36. Restrictions on Travel by Specified Trains

37. General—Any person who travels by a train for any journey which, according to the department’s timetables or other public notices, he is not entitled to make by that train, shall, without prejudice to any other penalty to which he may be liable, pay the appropriate fare for the shortest journey which he is entitled to make by that train.

38. Ticket Restrictions—Tickets issued under the sections of the General Scale of Charges shown against the train services listed below shall not be available for use on those services:

Train service Sections
(a) Silver Star .. 2, 4, 5, 7, 14, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 39, and 40.
(b) Silver Fern .. 2, 3, 5, 7, 14, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 39, and 40.
(c) Northerner .. 2, 3, 4, 7, 14, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 39, and 40.
(d) Endeavour .. 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 39, and 40.
(e) Southerner .. 2, 8, 13, 14, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 39, and 42.

3. Tickets issued under the provisions of section 34 are subject to restrictions imposed by the department from time to time.

4. Refunds on Tickets

                                 Omit      Insert

   Paragraph 5 (b) (i) .. .. .. .. 55c 60c
   Paragraph 5 (b) (ii) .. .. .. .. 55c 60c