Railways Act 1905 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Management
64. Penalty for fraud
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defrauds or attempts to defraud a railway administration —
railway administration
“railway administration”, in the case of a railway administered by the Government or the government of Malaysia, means the manager and includes the Government and also, so long as the railway is in the course of construction, the resident engineer, and, in the case of a railway administered by a railway company, means the railway company;
by travelling or attempting to travel upon the railway without having previously paid his fare;
railway
“railway” means a railway or any portion of a railway for the public carriage of passengers, animals or goods and includes —(a)all land within the fences or other boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a railway;(b)all lines of rails, sidings or branches worked over for the purposes of or in connection with a railway;(c)all stations, offices, warehouses, wharves, workshops, manufactories, fixed plant and machinery, and other works constructed for the purposes of or in connection with a railway;(d)all ferries, ships, boats and craft which are used for the traffic of a railway and belong to or are hired or worked by the authority administering the railway;(e)all engines, passenger coaches, and goods and livestock vehicles, or other rolling stock used for the purpose of carrying on the traffic of the railway;(f)all road vehicles used by or on behalf of or under contract with a railway administration for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, goods, livestock and vehicles; and(g)all aircraft used by or on behalf of or under contract with a railway administration for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, goods and livestock;
by riding in or upon a carriage of a higher class than that for which he has paid his fare; or
by continuing his journey in or upon any of the carriages beyond the station for which he has paid his fare without having previously either paid the fare for the additional distance or obtained the sanction of the station master or guard of the train;
knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at the station to which he has paid his fare to quit such carriage and railway premises;
transfers or profits by the transfer of the return half of any ticket obtained by him; or
in any other manner whatever attempts to evade the payment of his fare,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100 for each offence.