Railways Act 1905 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Management
71. Penalty for entering private room or carriage
Feedback & supportIf any special carriage or portion of a carriage or any private room or apartment is provided for the exclusive use of females, any male person who without lawful excuse enters such carriage or portion of a carriage or any such room or apartment knowing the same to be so appropriated, or remains therein after having been informed of its exclusive appropriation, or if any special carriage or compartment has been reserved for the private use of any person or persons and anyone without lawful excuse enters that carriage or compartment knowing the carriage to be so reserved, or remains therein after being requested to leave, or if any person who has obtained a ticket of one class knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to leave any room or place set apart for passengers of a higher class, that person may be forthwith removed therefrom and also from the premises appertaining to the railway by any railway official and shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100 and shall, if a passenger, forfeit 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;