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Article 52 Document to be issued in connection with penalty fare requirementI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

An authorised person who requires a passenger to pay a penalty fare must give the passenger either a receipt for the payment of the amount of the penalty (where the passenger makes that payment to the authorised person) or a notice stating that the requirement has been made.

(2)

A receipt or notice given under paragraph (1) must specify the passenger’s destination on the rapid transit vehicle on which the passenger is travelling when required to pay the penalty fare, and must operate as an authority to the passenger to continue to that destination.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (2), the passenger’s destination is (unless only one destination is possible in the circumstances) taken to be the destination stated by the passenger or, in default of any statement by the passenger identifying the passenger’s destination, such destination as may be specified by the authorised person.

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Art. 52 in force at 9.1.2014, see art. 1