London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Act 1992

8 Supplementary provisions with respect to penalty fares

(1) A person who is required to pay a penalty fare shall, unless he pays, immediately and in cash, the amount of the penalty fare to an authorised person requiring such payment, give to that authorised person, if that person requires him to do so, his name and address; and any person failing to do so shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Corporation to secure that the requirements of subsection (3) or, as the case may be, (4) below with respect to warning notices are met in the case of a bus or train service in relation to travel on which the penalty fare provisions have effect.

(3) In the case of a bus service, a warning notice meeting the requirements of subsections (5) and (6) below shall be posted in every vehicle used in providing that service or, where any such vehicle has more than one deck, on each deck of that vehicle, in such a position as to be readily visible to persons travelling on the vehicle.

(4) In the case of a train service, a warning notice meeting the requirements of subsections (5) and (6) below shall be posted—

(a) at every station at which persons may start to travel on that service, in such a position as to be readily visible to prospective passengers; and

(b) in every carriage of every train used in providing that service in such a position as to be readily visible to passengers travelling in the carriage.

(5) A warning notice posted pursuant to subsection (3) or (4) above shall (however expressed) indicate the circumstances (as provided in section 4 (1), 4 (2) or, as the case may be, 5 (1) of this Act) in which persons travelling on the service in question may be liable to pay a penalty fare.

(6) Every warning notice posted in pursuance of this section shall state the amount of the relevant penalty fare.

(7) Where an authorised person requires any person to do anything pursuant to any provision of this Act he shall, if so requested by the person concerned, produce to that person a duly authenticated document showing his authority; and a requirement by an authorised person shall be of no effect if, as respects that requirement, he fails to comply with this subsection.