77CConcession tickets

77C Concession tickets

77C Concession tickets

(1) A person must not travel, or attempt to travel, on a public passenger vehicle or train on the authority of a concession ticket unless the person is entitled to the concession ticket.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(2) The driver of a public passenger vehicle or an authorised officer may direct a person—

(a) who is travelling in a public passenger vehicle or train on the authority of a concession ticket, or

(b) who processes a concession ticket under this Division, or

(c) who makes a concession ticket available for inspection under this Division,

to produce to the driver or authorised officer evidence (for example, the person’s pensioner or student concession card) that the person is entitled to the concession ticket.

(3) A person who is given such a direction must immediately comply with it.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(4) A person may not be prosecuted for offences under both subclause (1) and subclause (3) in relation to the same travel.

(5) A person must not—

(a) in or in connection with an application for a concession ticket or the issue or purchase of a concession ticket, or

(b) in purported compliance with a direction made under this clause,

knowingly give any information or tender any document that contains a false or misleading particular with respect to the age, occupation or status of the person to whom the application or direction relates.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(6) For the purposes of this Regulation, a person is entitled to a concession ticket if the person is of a class of persons determined by TfNSW as being entitled to the type of concession ticket concerned.