Tramways Act 1870

Offences

49 Penalty for obstruction of promoters in laying out tramway.

If any person wilfully obstructs any person acting under the authority of any promoters in the lawful exercise of their powers in setting out or making, forming, laying down, repairing, or renewing a tramway, or defaces or destroys any mark made for the purposes of setting out the line of the tramway, or damages or destroys any property of any promoters, lessees, or licensees, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

50 Penalties for wilful injury or obstruction to tramways, &c.

If any person, without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him), wilfully does any of the following things; (namely,)

• Interferes with, removes, or alters any part of a tramway or of the works connected therewith ;

• Places or throws any stones, dirt, wood, refuse, or other material on any part of a tramway ;

• Does or causes to he done anything in such manner as to obstruct any carriage using a tramway, or to endanger the lives of persons therein or thereon;

• Or knowingly aids or assists in the doing of any such thing;

he shall for every such offence he liable (in addition to any proceedings by way of indictment or otherwise to which he may be subject) to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

51 Penalty on passengers practising frauds on the promoters.

If any person travelling or having travelled in any carriage on any tramway avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare, or if any person having paid his fare for a certain distance knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such carriage beyond such distance, and does not pay the additional fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof, or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects 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.

52 Transient offenders.

It shall he lawful for any officer or servant of the promoters or lessees of any tramway, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to seize and detain any person discovered either in or after committing or attempting to commit any such offence as in the next preceding section is mentioned, and whose name or residence is unknown to such officer or servant, until such person can he conveniently taken before a justice, or until he be otherwise discharged by due course of law.

53 Penalty for bringing dangerous goods on the tramway.

No person shall he entitled to carry or to require to he carried on any tramway any goods which may he of a dangerous nature, and if any person send by any tramway any such goods without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to the hook-keeper or other servant with whom the same are left at the time of such sending, he shall he liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for every such offence, and it shall he lawful for such promoters or lessees to refuse to take any parcel that they may suspect to contain goods of a dangerous nature, or require the same to he opened to ascertain the fact.

54 Penalty for persons using tramways with carriages with flange wheels, &c.

If any person (except under a lease from or by agreement with the promoters, or under license from the Board of Trade, as by this Act provided,) uses a tramway or any part thereof with carriages having flange wheels or other wheels suitable only to run on the rail of such tramway, such person shall for every such offence he liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.