The Docklands Light Railway (Penalty Fares and Provision of Police Services) Order 1994

Liability for penalty fare

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, if a person travelling on a train service fails to produce a fare ticket or a general travel authority 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.

(2) (a) A person (other than one falling within sub-paragraph (b) below) shall not be liable to pay a penalty fare under this article 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.

(b) A person who started to travel on a train service by transferring to that service from a train service provided by a third person shall not be liable to pay a penalty fare under this article if—

(i) on being required to produce a fare ticket or general travel authority he produces a valid deferred fare authority issued by that third person; or

(ii) neither at the time when and thee station where he started to travel on the train service provided by that third person nor at the station where the passenger transferred to the train service provided by the Company there were facilities for either the sale of the necessary fare ticket for his journey or the issue of deferred fare authorities.

(c) Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above, a person shall not be liable to pay a penalty fare under this article if at the time when and the station where his journey began—

(i) 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 a general travel authority or (in the case of a station controlled by a third person) a deferred fare authority; or

(ii) a person in the uniform of the person controlling that station or, if different, a person in the uniform of an employee of the Company, gave permission to the same effect.

(3) Paragraphs (4) and (5) below have effect with respect to the burden of proof in any action for the recovery of a penalty fare under this article, so far as concerns the question whether the facts of the case fall within sub-paragraph (a), (b)(ii) or (c) of paragraph (2) above.

(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 (a), (b)(ii) or (c) of paragraph (2) above and in any other case it shall be for the defendant to show that the facts of the case fall within any of those provisions.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) above—

(a) a relevant statement is a statement giving an explanation of the defendant’s failure to produce a fare ticket, general travel authority or (where relevant) deferred fare authority, 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 also, if he started so to travel when he transferred from a train service provided by a third person, the time when and the station where he started to travel on that service); and

(b) a statement is provided in due time if it is provided when the defendant is required to produce a fare ticket, general travel authority or deferred fare authority, 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.

(6) In this article, “deferred fare authority” means a ticket or other document described as such on its face; and a deferred fare authority is valid for the purposes of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) above if it authorises a person in possession of it to start a journey at the time when and the station where the person producing it started his journey.