43Offences

##### 43. Offences If any person does or causes or procures to be done any of the following things — (a) obstructs any officer or servant employed on any railway in the performance of his duty; (b) damages any railway, or any locomotive, carriage, wagon, rolling‑stock, machinery, material, or thing used upon or belonging to any railway; (c) defaces the writing or printing on or attached to any board, or any notice authorised to be maintained on any railway, or on or in any railway carriage, rolling‑stock, or railway station; (d) writes any indecent words or draws any indecent or obscene picture or representation on any part of a railway, or on any railway carriage or rolling‑stock, or on any fences or buildings upon or adjoining any railway, or near to and conspicuous from any railway; (e) behaves in a violent or offensive manner to the annoyance of others, or is drunk, on any railway or railway premises or in any carriage thereon, he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable to a penalty of $600. [Section 43 amended: No. 55 of 1960 s. 10; No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 77 of 1980 s. 8; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 78 of 1995 s. 147; No. 19 of 2010 s. 60(4).] [**44.** Deleted: No. 40 of 2022 s. 5.]