{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/33-34/78",
  "legislation_title": "Tramways Act 1870",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Penalty on passengers practising frauds on the promoters.",
  "text": "If any person travelling or having travelled in any carriage on any tramway avoids or attempts to avoid payment of his fare, or if any person having paid his fare for a certain distance knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such carriage beyond such distance, and does not pay the additional fare for the additional distance, or attempts to avoid payment thereof, or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare to quit such carriage, every such person shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 49-64 repealed (except as incorporated in, or otherwise applied by, any Act of Parliament of Provisional Order) (1.1.1993) by Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), ss. 65(1)(b), 68(1), Sch. 4 Pt.I; S.I. 1992/2784, art. 2(b), Sch. 2 Pt.I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/78/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:37.315790+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."
}