68CPersons not to hinder use of ferry facilities or facilities in public areas

68C Persons not to hinder use of ferry facilities or facilities in public areas

68C Persons not to hinder use of ferry facilities or facilities in public areas

(1) A person must not, without reasonable excuse—

(a) obstruct any ferry facility or facility in a public area, or

(b) hinder (whether by obstruction or by any other means) another person’s use of any ferry facility or facility in a public area.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting subclause (1)—

(a) ferry facilities include the following—

(i) the entrance to a ferry wharf,

(ii) the exit from a ferry wharf,

(iii) stairways and escalators on, or leading to, a ferry wharf,

(iv) the gangplank between a ferry and a ferry wharf, and

(b) facility in a public area includes the following—

(i) the entrance to a station or light rail stop,

(ii) the exit from a station or light rail stop,

(iii) stairways and escalators at a station or light rail stop, and

(c) a person who sits on a stairway on a ferry, or on a stairway on or leading to a ferry wharf, is taken to hinder another person’s use of ferry facilities.