# Tramways Act 1870, Section 51: Penalty on passengers practising frauds on the promoters.

Extent: E+W+S

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 .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/78/section/51 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/tramways-act-1870/section-51
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