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BYELAW
1. Interpretation.
2. Penalties.
3. Ticket requirements.
3A. Alcohol restrictions.
4. Automatic ticket barriers.
5. Avoidance of fares.
6 to 8. Ticket regulations.
9 to 12. Entry restrictions.
13. Interference with equipment, etc.
14. Entry onto and exit from vehicles.
15. Infectious diseases.
16. Intoxicated, unfit or unclean passengers.
17. Disorderly conduct
18. Carriage of animals.
19. Carriage of dangerous weapons or substances.
20. Smoking restrictions.
21. Misuse of Board's property.
22. Noise, disturbance, sale of goods, touting etc.
23. Betting, gambling and loitering.
24. Throwing of dangerous articles.
25. Control of parking and waiting of vehicles.
26. Payment of parking charges.
27. Prohibition of spitting and deposit of litter.
28. Formation of queues.
29. Use of change machines.
30. Cyclists, etc. not to use footpaths or footways.
31. Seat reservations.
32. Supply of name and address.
33. Commencement.
34. Repeal of previous byelaws.
MADE UNDER SECTION 67 OF THE TRANSPORT ACT. 1962. BY THE BRITISH
RAILWAYS BOARD AND
CONFIRMED BY THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT FOR REGULATING THE USE AND WORKING OF. AND
TRAVEL ON. THEIR RAILWAYS. THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER ON THEIR RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY -
PREMISES AND THE CONDUCT OF ALL PERSONS WHILE ON THOSE PREMISES.
1. In these Byelaws unless the context otherwise requires the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:-
"the Board" means the British Railways Board;
"the railway" means the railways and railway premises of the Board, including stations and the approaches to stations;
"authorised person" means any officer, employee or agent of the Board, and any constable, acting in the execution of his or her duty upon or in connection with the railway;
"lift" means any lift escalator or moving platform on the railway;
"ticket" means any ticket or document issued for the conveyance of any passenger, animal or article on the railway, or any platform ticket, or car or bicycle parking ticket, and includes in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any season ticket, free pass, privilege ticket, or any warrant, identity card, voucher or other similar authority in exchange for or on production of which any ticket for the conveyance of any passenger may be issued;
"vehicle" means any railway vehicle on the railway and includes any compartment of any such vehicle.
2.(1) Any person offending against any of the following Byelaws numbered 6,7,8, 12,
* 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22(2) and 24 shall be liable for. every such offence to a penalty not exceeding two hundred pounds.
* (2) Any person offending against any other of these Byelaws, except Byelaws 3 and 3A, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.
(3) Any person offending against any of the following Byelaws numbered 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17,20,22,23,25,26.27, 28,29,30.31 and 32, and failing to desist or quit, or failing to comply with the Byelaw, as the case may be, when requested so to do by an authorised person may be removed from the railway or any part thereof or any lift or vehicle by an authorised person without prejudice where any penalty is prescribed as aforesaid for the contravention of any such Byelaw to such penalty.
3.(1) No person other than an authorised person shall enter any lift or pass any ticket barrier unless and until he or she or someone on his or her behalf shall have obtained from the Board or from an authorised person, a ticket or other authority entitling the holder to enter such lift or pass such barrier, and such ticket or other authority shall be produced on demand to any authorised person.
(2) No person other than an authorised person shall enter any vehicle for the purpose of travelling unless and until he or she or someone on his or her behalf shall have obtained from the Board or from an authorised person a ticket or other authority entitling him or her to travel therein.
3A. (1) No person shall take, or attempt to take, any intoxicating liquor into, or onto, any * vehicle, or have in his or her possession any intoxicating liquor in or on any vehicle, in respect of which vehicle reasonable notice is, or has been, given prohibiting the taking of intoxicating liquor therein or thereon.
(2) No person having in his or her possession any intoxicating liquor in or on any vehicle in respect of which reasonable notice has been given as aforesaid, shall remain or attempt to remain in or upon such vehicle, or the railway or any part thereof, when requested by an authorised person not to do so.
(3) In this Byelaw "intoxicating liquor" has the meaning ascribed thereto by Section 201(1) of the Licensing Act 1964.
(4) Any person who is reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit any offence against this Byelaw shall give his or her name and address to any authorised person when requested to do so.
(5) Any person offending against this Byelaw shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding [two hundred pounds].
(6) Any person offending against this Byelaw and failing to desist or quit or failing to comply with this Byelaw, as the case may be, may be removed from the railway or any part thereof or any vehicle by an authorised person, without prejudice to the penalty described in paragraph (5) of this Byelaw.
4.No person shall, at any station upon the railway at which entrance to or egress from a platform or premises leading to or from a platform is controlled by means of an automatic ticket barrier, except by permission of an authorised person, enter or leave, or attempt to enter or leave, such platform or other premises without passing through such barrier.
5. When the fare to an intermediate station exceeds the fare to a more distant station, no person shall, for the purpose of travelling to such intermediate station, take or use, or attempt to use a ticket for the more distant station with intent to avoid payment of the additional fare to such intermediate station. The liability to or infliction of any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw shall not prejudice any right of the Board to treat such ticket as forfeited and to recover the full fare for the distance actually travelled by the offender.
6. No person with intent that the Board shall be defrauded or prejudiced, shall
(1) alter, deface, mutilate or destroy any ticket; or
(2) knowingly and wilfully use or attempt to use any ticket which shall have been in any respect materially altered, defaced or mutilated.
7.(1) Subject to paragraph (3) of this Byelaw no person shall, with intent that any person shall use the same for the purpose of travelling or conveyance upon the railway
(a) sell or buy or attempt to sell or buy any ticket; or
(b) transfer or receive
(i) any partly used ticket or
(ii) any season ticket, free pass, privilege ticket, warrant, identity card9 voucher or other similar authority or ticket issued in exchange for or on production of any warrant, identity card, voucher or other similar authority.
(2) No person shall knowingly and wilfully use or attempt to use any ticket which has been sold4 bought transferred or received in contravention of sub-paragraph (1 )(a) or (l)(b) of this Byelaw.
(3) The sale or transfer or attempted sale or transfer by, or the purchase or receipt or attempted purchase or receipt from, an authorised person is excepted from the provisions of this Byelaw.
8. No person, with intent that the Board shall be defrauded or prejudiced, shall
(1) tender or deliver up to an authorised person a ticket or money on behalf of another person with intent to enable the person on whose behalf the ticket or money is tendered or delivered up to travel without having previously paid his or her fare,
(2) transfer, tender or deliver up a ticket to another person with intent to enable any person to travel on the railway without having previously paid his or her fare.
9. No person of the male sex above the age of 12 years shall travel or attempt to travel or remain in any vehicle or place on the railway marked or notified as being reserved or appropriated for the exclusive use of persons of the female sex.
10. No person shall enter or attempt to enter any lift or vehicle through any door thereof until all persons who are leaving or are on the way to leave such lift or vehicle through such door shall have passed out of such door.
11. When a lift or vehicle contains the full number of passengers which it is constructed to carry no additional person shall enter or remain therein if requested by an authorised person not to do so.
12. No person except an authorised person shall mount or attempt to mount on any vehicle except on such part or parts as are provided for the carriage of passengers.
13. No person except an authorised person shall
(1) operate, move, work or tamper with any mechanical or electrical appliance upon the railway or any switch lever or other device operating or controlling any mechanical or electrical appliance upon the railway except
(a) in cases of emergency, any switch lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated in cases of emergency; or
(b) in the case of an automatic door in any vehicle (when such door is immediately adjacent to and gives immediate access to, and such vehicle is stationary at, a platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the vehicle) any switch lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that is intended to be operated by passengers to open or close such door; or
(c) any switch lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance provided in a compartment of any vehicle for the operation or control of any heating, ventilating or lighting apparatus by passengers therein; or
(2) open or attempt to open any gate or door of any lift-shaft or any lift, or unfasten or tamper with or wilfully impede or interfere with the operation of any fastening or fitting on any such gate or door; or
(3) enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave, any lift (not being an escalator or moving platform) whilst it is in motion or otherwise than at the side appointed for passengers to enter or leave the same; or
(4) ascend or descend, or attempt to ascend or descend, by means of any escalator except by the stairway thereof provided for ascending or descending passengers as the case may be, or sit upon the stairway of any escalator;
(5) travel, or attempt to travel, upon any moving platform in a direction other than the direction in which the same is moving, or sit upon any moving platform or any part thereof;
(6) open, or attempt to open, any gate or gates leading to or from a platform at a station upon the railway without authority to do so.
14. No person, except an authorised person, shall
(1) open the door, or stand or attempt to stand on the step or foot-board of any vehicle whilst it is in motion or (except in case of accident or other emergency) between stations; or
(2) open the door of any vehicle at a station other than at the side of the vehicle adjoining the platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the vehicle; or
(3) enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave any such vehicle whilst it is in motion or (except in case of accident or other emergency) between stations or otherwise than at the side of the vehicle adjoining the platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the vehicle; or
(4) (in the case of any vehicle equipped with automatic closing doors) attempt to enter or leave the vehicle after the doors have commenced to close; or
(5) where notices are exhibited in a vehicle indicating that a door shall be used for entrance thereto and another door for exit therefrom (except in case of accident or other emergency) enter or attempt to enter by the door indicated for exit or leave or attempt to leave by the door indicated for entrance.
15.Except by permission in writing of an authorised person no person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease or disorder shall enter or remain and no person having the custody charge or care of any such person shall cause or permit such person to enter or remain upon the railway, and the Board may refuse to receive or carry any such person or to permit any such person to enter remain or be upon the railway or to travel on the railway. Any person suffering as aforesaid and any person having the custody, charge or care of any such person may be removed from the railway by, or under the direction of; an authorised person and shall be liable to the Board for the cost of disinfecting the Board's premises and any lift or vehicle in which such person shall have been, and to make good any other damage to the property of the Board through the contravention of this Byelaw without prejudice to any penalty incurred by such contravention.
16. No person in a state of intoxication shall enter or remain upon the railway and no person who is in an unfit or improper condition to travel by passenger train or whose dress or clothing is in a condition liable to soil or injure the linings or cushions of any carriage, or the dress or clothing of any passenger, shall enter or remain in any lift or vehicle. Provided that no person shall be prevented from entering, or remaining in or on any lift or vehicle under the provisions of this Byelaw on the ground of the condition of his or her dress or clothing, when he or she so enters or remains in or on the lift or vehicle with the permission of an authorised person, or when the vehicle is specially provided or set apart for workmen.
17. No person shall at any time while upon the railway
(1) use any threatening abusive obscene or offensive language; or
(2) behave in a riotous disorderly indecent or offensive manner; or
(3) write, draw or affix any abusive, obscene or offensive word, representation or character upon, or wilfully soil or defile, the railway or any lift or vehicle; or
(4) molest or wilfully interfere with the comfort or convenience of any passenger or person in or upon the railway.
18. No person shall take or cause to be taken on to, or cause or allow to remain upon the railway, if requested not to do so by an authorised person, any animal, article or thing which by reason of its nature, is in the opinion of such authorised person likely to cause or in fact does cause annoyance or damage to any passenger or damage to any property and no person in charge of an animal shall permit such animal to stand, sit, lie down or walk on any escalator or moving platform whilst the same is in motion in breach of a warning exhibited upon such escalator or moving platform. If any person in charge of such animal, article or thing fails when requested by an authorised person immediately to remove the same from the railway, escalator or moving platform (as the case may be) then the same may be removed therefrom by or under the direction of such authorised person, without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw.
19. No person shall take or cause to be taken upon, or place or cause to be placed upon, the railway or, while upon the railway, have in his or her possession or discharge, as the case may be, any loaded weapon of any kind, or any cinematograph film or any inflammable, explosive or corrosive gas, spirit, liquid, substance or matter, or any article or thing which is or may become dangerous to any person or property. Provided that nothing in this Byelaw shall apply to
(a) small quantities of spirit or liquid carried for the personal use of such person and not for the purpose of trade or business, provided that all due precautions are taken for the prevention of accident or injury therefrom;
(b) cinematograph film formed on a cellulose acetate base that is so called "safety" "slow burning" or similar types;
(c) the carriage of explosives in accordance with any Byelaws in force at the time of such carriage and made by the Board or their predecessors and sanctioned by the Minister of transport under and in pursuance of the Explosives Act, 1875, or any Act amending the same, or
(d) the carriage of dangerous goods (other than explosives) in accordance with the conditions and regulations for the time being applicable to the carriage of such goods on the railway.
If any person offending against this Byelaw fails to remove from the railway immediately upon request by an authorised person, any article or thing to which this Byelaw relates, the same may be removed therefrom by or under the direction of an authorised person without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw.
20. No person shall smoke or carry a lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette in any lift or vehicle or elsewhere upon the railway, where smoking is expressly prohibited by the Board by a notice exhibited in a conspicuous position in such lift or vehicle or upon or near such other part of the railway or if requested by an authorised person not to do so in or upon any part of the railway where smoking or carrying a lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette may be dangerous.
21. No person shall wilfully. wantonly or maliciously
(1) move or set in motion or stop or attempt to stop. any lift or vehicle or automatic door except:
(a) in cases of emergency by means of a switch or appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated in cases of emergency; or
(b) in the case of an automatic door, when the vehicle of which the door forms part is stationary at and the door is immediately adjacent to and gives immediate access to a platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave such vehicle, by means of a switch or appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated by passengers to open or close such door; or
(2) break, cut, scratch, tear, soil, deface or damage any lift or vehicle, or any of the fittings, furniture, decorations, or equipment thereof, or any notice, advertisement, number plate, number, figure or letter therein or thereupon, or remove therefrom or detach any such article or thing; or
(3) deface or damage any part of the railway or any property upon the railway.
Any person offending against this Byelaw shall be liable to the Board for the amount of the damage done to any property of the Board, without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw.
22. (1) No person, while upon the railway shall, to the annoyance of any other person, sing, perform on any musical or other instrument or use any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or portable wireless apparatus.
(2) No person while upon the railway, shall, except by permission of an authorised person:-
(a) display or exhibit any printed, written or pictorial matter or any article for the purpose of advertising or publicity, or distribute any book, leaflet or other printed matter or any sample or other article; or
(b) sell or expose or offer for sale any article or goods whatsoever; or
(c) tout, ply for, or solicit alms, reward or custom or employment of any description.
*23. (1) No person shall enter or remain upon or use the railway for the purpose of bookmaking or betting or wagering or agreeing to bet or wager or paying or receiving or settling bets with any other person but this paragraph shall not apply to:-
(a) premises at a station on the railway which are let out by the Board to a bookmaker or the Horserace Totalisator Board for use as a licensed betting office; or
(b) any person who, for any purpose connected with the making, negotiation or receipt of a bet or the collection or payment of winnings on a bet, resorts to such premises.
(1A) In paragraph (1) of this Byelaw "bookmaker" and "licensed betting office" have the same meanings as in section 55(1) of the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963.
(2) No person playing for money or moneys worth at any game or pretended game of chance or skill upon the railway shall continue to do so after having been requested by an authorised person to desist therefrom.
(3) No person shall loiter or remain upon the railway after having been requested by an authorised person to depart unless such person is lawfully entitled so to remain.
24. No person shall throw or wilfully drop on or from any lift or vehicle or any conveyance on the railway any article or thing whatsoever capable of injuring, damaging or endangering any person or property.
25. No driver, conductor, or person in charge of any public service vehicle, motor car, cab, carriage, wagon, bicycle or other conveyance or of any animal in or upon the railway shall
(1) leave or place any such conveyance or animal in or upon the railway:-
(a) in any manner or place so as to cause an obstruction or hindrance to the Board or to persons using the railway; or
(b) otherwise then in accordance with any reasonable direction of an authorised person; or
(c) where parking or waiting is prohibited; or
(2) leave or place any such conveyance or animal in or upon the railway (otherwise than in a car park or other place expressly authorised by the Board) for a period longer than necessary for such person to transact any lawful business upon the railway at or adjacent to the place at which such conveyance or animal has been left or placed; or
(3) leave or place any animal in or upon the railway (otherwise than in a place expressly appointed by the Board) unattended; or
(4) conduct himself or herself in a disorderly manner.
Any conveyance or animal so left or placed in breach of this Byelaw may be removed by or under the direction of an authorised person, and the cost thereof shall be paid to the Board by the said driver, conductor or person in charge of the conveyance or animal without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw.
26. No person in charge of any public service vehicle, motor car, cab, carriage, wagon, bicycle or other conveyance which is parked at a place on the railway for the use of which parking charges are levied by the Board shall remove or attempt to remove such conveyance from such place without having previously paid the appropriate charge and with intent to evade payment thereof. Provided that no person shall be subject to any penalty under this Byelaw unless it be proved to the satisfaction of the Court before whom complaint is laid that a public notice was exhibited at that place specifying the charges payable for parking thereat.
27. No person shall
(1) spit upon the floor or in upon or against any part of any lift or vehicle upon the railway, or upon the platform or the permanent way at any station of the Board, or in upon or against any hall, office, waiting room, public room, or public passage at any station of the Board; or
(2) place or throw any litter upon the railway except into receptacles expressly provided for that purpose.
28. The Board may establish queues on the railway for the purpose of regulating the access to services and facilities provided on or in the immediate vicinity of the railway, and every person desirous of availing himself or herself of any such service or facility shall, upon notice or request by the Board or an authorised person take up position in the rear of one of such queues and move forward in an orderly and regular manner, and obey the reasonable instructions of an authorised person regulating such queues.
29. No person shall by means of any machine provided by the Board upon the railway change or procure to be changed any coin or coins or any currency note or notes otherwise than for the purpose of obtaining immediately a ticket or tickets from the Board or from an authorised person at the station where such machine is provided.
30. No person other than an authorised person shall ride a bicycle tricycle motorcycle or other similar machine or bring any handcart barrow or similar conveyance upon any footbridge footpath causeway or subway on the railway and made or set apart for the use or accommodation of pedestrians only. Provided that no person shall be subject to any penalty under this Byelaw unless it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the court before whom the complaint is laid that public warning has been given that the footbridge footpath causeway or subway in respect of which the complaint is made has been set apart for the use or accommodation of pedestrians only by notice clearly exhibited at the footbridge footpath causeway or subway where and at the time at which any offence under this Byelaw is alleged to have been committed.
31. No person shall occupy or use any compartment, sleeping berth or seat on the railway, upon which or in relation to which notice has been fixed or given by the Board that such compartment, sleeping berth or seat is reserved, except the holder of a reservation ticket issued by the Board in respect of the holder's occupation or use of such compartment, sleeping berth or seat.
32.Any person who is reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit any offence against these Byelaws shall give his or her name and address to any authorised person when requested to do so.
33. These Byelaws will come into operation in accordance with the provisions of Section 67 of the Transport Act, 1962.
34. Upon the coming into operation of these Byelaws, any Byelaw previously made in relation to the railway or any part thereof under the provisions of Sections 108 and 109 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, Sections 101 and 102 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, Section 7 of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889, or any other provisions to the same or similar effect incorporated with or contained in any enactment relating to the railway, shall, in so far as they apply to the railway, be and the same are hereby repealed without prejudice, however, to the validity of anything done thereunder or to any liability incurred in respect of any act or omission before the date of the coming into operation of these Byelaws.
[The following notes are, in the printed edition, footnotes printed beneath the relevant byelaws]
* Note A. The original Byelaws 2(1) and 2(2) were repealed and the present Byelaws.2(1) and 2(2) substituted in their place by further Byelaws made by the Board on 14th August 1981, confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport on 16th November 1981 and which came into operation on 30th November 1981.
* Note B. Byelaw 3A was made by the Board on 27th June 1980 confirmed by the Minister of Transport on 12th August 1980, and came into operation on 16th August 1980. The words in square brackets were substituted in place of the original wording by the further Byelaws referred to in note A on previous page.
* Note C. The original Byelaw 23(1) was amended and 23(1 A) was added by the Board on 21st April 1986, confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport on the ~h July 1986 and came into operation on 1st August 1986.
The Common Seal of the British Railways Board ~ was hereunto affixed in the presence of:-
F.C. MARGETTS, Member
LL. WANSBROUGH-JONES, Secretary.
on the twenty-second day of June, 1965.
The Minister of Transport hereby confirms the above Byelaws and fixes the first day of September, 1965 as the date on which the Byelaws shall come into operation.
Signed by authority of the Minister of Transport this sixth day of August, 1965.
MICHAEL CUSTANCE,
Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD
RAILWAY BYELAWS
I HEREBY CERTIFY
(a) that the foregoing Byelaws were made by the British Railways Board and that this is a true copy of the Byelaws;
(b) that on 6th August 1965 the Byelaws were confirmed by the Minister of Transport and came into operation on 1st September, 1965;
(c) that on 12th August 1980 Additional Byelaw 3A was confirmed by the Minister of Transport and came into operation on 16th August 1980; and
(d) that on 16th November 1981 Additional Byelaws 2(1) and (2) and the Amendment to Byelaw 3A(5) were confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport and came into operation on 30th November 1981;
(e) that on 9th July 1986 the Amendment to Byelaw 23(1) and Additional Byelaw 23(1A) were confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport and came into operation on 1st August 1986.
DATED this day of 19
British Railways Board.
A Person Authorised
By The Board To Act
Instead Of The Secretary
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Railways Act, 1993
Amendments to the above Byelaws:
Interpretation –
The reference to "the Board" is to be taken as including any independent railway operator;
The reference to "the railway" is to be taken as including any relevant asset of any independent railway operator.
"Relevant assets" includes any assets, including rolling stock, of which the independent railway operator has the management for the time being.
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