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For regulating the receipt and delivery of goods and other things which are to be conveyed upon such carriages.

For preventing the smoking of tobacco and the commission of any other nuisance in or upon such carriages, or in any of the stations or premises occupied by the General Manager in connection with the said railways;

And generally, for regulating the travelling upon and using and working of the said railways;

And whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1875," it is enacted that the Governor in Council may make regulations and by-laws applicable to all railways constructed by him under the authority of the said hereinbefore mentioned Acts, and actually open for traffic, whether the whole of such railway be completed or not, and that whenever it shall be necessary to extend the operation of such regulations and by-laws to any particular railway, it shall be lawful for the Governor to do so in the manner in the said Act provided;

And whereas it is expedient that regulations and by-laws should be made in respect of the said lines of railway:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise and pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby make the By-laws, Rules, and Regulations hereto annexed, as By-laws, Rules, and Regulations applicable to the said lines of railway for the purposes aforesaid.

BY-LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS FOR REGULATING THE TRAVELLING UPON AND USING OF THE RAILWAYS IN NEW ZEALAND CONSTRUCTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF NEW ZEALAND, UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC WORKS ACT.

Passenger Traffic.

No person will be admitted to the booking office at any station while the door is closed for making up and despatching any train, and no passenger will be allowed to take his or her seat in or upon any carriage used on the railway, or to travel therein upon the railway, without first having paid his or her fare and obtained a ticket.

Tickets will be issued conditionally, that is to say, in case there shall be room in the train for all the passengers to whom tickets shall have been issued. If there shall not be room for all such passengers, the holders of periodical tickets shall have the priority over holders of return and single tickets, and the fare will be returned, on application to the Station Master, to the holders of such return and single tickets as shall be unable to obtain seats.

If any person travel or attempt to travel in any carriage on the railway without having previously paid his fare, and with intent thereby to evade payment thereof; or if any person, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such carriage beyond such distance without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to evade payment thereof; or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuse or neglect on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare to quit such carriage, every such person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

If any person be discovered either in or after committing or attempting to commit such offence as in the preceding clause mentioned, all officers and servants and other persons on behalf of the Superintendent, and all constables, gaolers, and peace officers, may lawfully apprehend and detain such person until he can be conveniently taken before some Justice, or until he be otherwise discharged by due course of law.

No return or periodical ticket will be available for special trains.

Every passenger, on arriving at the station for which he or she may have taken a ticket, or to or from which he or she may hold a periodical ticket, shall quit the station and premises of the railway; and no person shall be allowed to loiter about the stations, wharf, or premises, or any part thereof; and if any passenger or other person shall refuse to quit the station, wharf, or premises aforesaid, on being requested so to do by any Station Master or any servant attached to the railway or wharf, such passenger or person may be expelled by such Station Master or other servant as aforesaid from the railway premises.

No gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous material shall be carried by any passenger train.

Each passenger, on paying his fare, will be furnished with a ticket, which he is to show whenever required by any Station Master or authorized Porter, or by the guard in charge of the train; and if it be a return ticket, he must allow it to be marked when required; and every ticket (whether single, return, or periodical) must be delivered up on the demand of any porter or servant authorized to collect tickets. Single tickets not used on the day of issue, or a return ticket not used within the prescribed time, shall be deemed to be cancelled. Any person offending against the provisions of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Tickets are not transferable; and any person using or attempting to use a transferred ticket, or a ticket the time for the proper use of which has expired, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Any person knowingly, and with intent to defraud, travelling upon the railway in a carriage of a superior class to that for which he is provided with a ticket, or altering a return or other ticket, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

Tickets, whether single or return, shall be used by passengers only to convey them to the station named thereon, or to 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 provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

No person will be allowed to break his journey by stopping at any intermediate station, and thereafter proceeding by a subsequent train with the same ticket, under a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

Any person, not duly authorized by the Superintendent, 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 two pounds.

No male passenger shall be allowed to enter any waiting-room or carriage set apart for the accommodation 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 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 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 two pounds.

No person shall, without the consent of the Superintendent or other authorised officer, travel outside a carriage.