{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/penalty-fares-increase-order-northern-ireland-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/281",
  "legislation_title": "Penalty Fares (Increase) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/penalty-fares-increase-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSchedule 1B to the Transport Act 1967 (as inserted by S.I. 1990/994 (N.I. 7) makes provision for penalty fares to be paid by a person who travels on a bus or train service without paying the proper fare.\nParagraph 4(1) of that Schedule provides that the amount of a penalty fare shall be the full single fare for the journey plus £5. The penalty fare was increased in 1991 to £10.\nThis Order increases that amount by an additional £10 to £20.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/281/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:35:42.479942+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."
}