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Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
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[F12(1)Subject to sub‐paragraphs (2) and (3) and paragraph 3, if a person travelling on a train service fails to produce a fare ticket or an authority to travel on being required to do so by an authorised person, he shall be liable to pay a penalty fare if required to do so by an authorised person.N.I.
(2)A person shall not be liable to pay a penalty fare under this paragraph if at the time when and the station where he started to travel on the train service there were no facilities available for the sale of the necessary fare ticket for his journey.
(3)Without prejudice to sub‐paragraph (2), a person shall not be liable to pay a penalty fare under this paragraph if at the time when and the station where his journey began—
(a)there was displayed a notice (however expressed) indicating that it was permissible for passengers beginning a journey at that station at that time to do so without having a fare ticket or an authority to travel; or
(b)a person in the uniform of the railway undertaking gave permission to the same effect.
(4)In any case where the defendant has provided the plaintiff with a relevant statement in due time it shall be for the plaintiff to show that the facts of the case do not fall within sub‐paragraph (2) or (3); and in any other case it shall be for the defendant to show that the facts of the case fall within either of those sub‐paragraphs.
(5)For the purposes of sub‐paragraph (4)—
(a)a relevant statement is a statement giving an explanation of the defendant's failure to produce a fare ticket or authority to travel, together with any information as to his journey relevant to that explanation (including, in every case, an indication of the time when and the station where he started to travel on the train service); and
(b)a statement is provided in due time if it is provided when the defendant is required to produce a fare ticket or authority to travel, or at any later time before the expiration of the period of 21 days beginning with the day following the day on which the journey is completed.]
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