{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-regional-transport-penalty-fares-act-1992/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-regional-transport-penalty-fares-act-1992/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1992/16",
  "legislation_title": "London Regional Transport (Penalty Fares) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-regional-transport-penalty-fares-act-1992",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Penalty fares on buses",
  "text": "(1) If a person travelling on a ticket bus service who has had a reasonable opportunity to obtain a fare ticket for a journey on that service fails to produce a fare ticket or a general travel authority on being required to do so by an authorised person, he shall be liable to pay a penalty fare if required to do so by an authorised person.\n(2) If a person travels on a non-ticket bus service without paying the fare properly payable for a journey on that service and, while so travelling, fails to produce a general travel authority on being required to do so by an authorised person, he shall be liable to pay a penalty fare if required to do so by an authorised person.\n(3) In this section a“ticket bus service” means a bus service on which fare tickets are issued in return for fares paid by persons travelling on that service, and a“non-ticket bus service” means a bus service on which fare tickets are not so issued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1992/16/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:34.861555+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}