The Railways (Penalty Fares) Regulations 1994

Circumstances in which a penalty fare is not to be charged where a person is in a compulsory ticket area

7.—(1) No person present in or leaving a compulsory ticket area, but who is not leaving a train, shall be charged a penalty fare in the circumstances to which this regulation applies.

(2) The circumstances to which this regulation applies are that—

(a) there were no facilities in operation at the station (in this regulation referred to as “the relevant station”) of which the compulsory ticket area formed part for the sale of the appropriate ticket or other authority to be present in that compulsory ticket area;

(b) the requirements of rules with respect to the display of notices were not satisfied in relation to that compulsory ticket area;

(c) a notice was displayed at the relevant station indicating that the person in question was, or persons generally were, permitted to be present in that compulsory ticket area without having a ticket or other authority; or

(d) a person acting or purporting to act on behalf of

(i) the operator of any train departing from that compulsory ticket area, or

(ii) the operator of the relevant station

indicated that the person in question was, or persons in general were, permitted to be present in that compulsory ticket area without having a ticket or other authority.