Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make provision for the charging of penalty fares for failure to produce, when required to do so, a ticket or other authority authorising a person to travel by train or to be present in a compulsory ticket area at a station. They also empower the Rail Regulator to make rules governing the charging and imposition of penalty fares.
Regulation 3 imposes the requirement on any person travelling by train or being present in or leaving a compulsory ticket area to produce a ticket or other authority to travel or be in a compulsory ticket area, when required to do so by an authorised collector. Regulation 4 provides that, if any person fails to comply with the requirement imposed by regulation 3, then that person shall be liable to a penalty fare. Regulation 5 makes provision for the amount of the penalty fare to be charged.
Regulations 6 and 7 contain provisions setting out the circumstances in which a penalty fare is not to be charged.
Regulation 8 provides that a penalty fare may be recovered as a civil debt. Regulation 9 provides that, if a relevant statement is provided to the person charging the penalty fare, then it shall be for that person to show that any of the facts contained in the statement are not true. Regulation 9 also contains provisions about what a relevant statement should contain and the time within which it should be provided.
Regulation 10 contains provision preventing a person from being liable to a penalty fare in the event that he is prosecuted for any of the offences specified in that regulation. Regulation 11 empowers the Rail Regulator to make rules relating to penalty fares. Regulation 12 requires a person to give his name and address when required to do so by an authorised collector and creates the offence of failing to do so.