THE MAMPUR STATE ROAD TRANSPORT (PREVENTION ' 01: TICKETLESS PASSENGERS) .. 1976 (A: god-ma by as Layaway assembly I Mfafiipu'r) Av» m ‘34 ~ to make provisions for prevention of ticketIess travel in mail Transport Service carrier? on by the State Transport m3ertaking in the State and for matters connected therewith.
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1 “in m of R‘e‘isnb3c 16f sash“ ‘ “as 1’31le ‘1. (1) This Aqt may be calicd the .Manipur State R0311 Transport Service (Prevention of Ticketless Passengers) Act, 1976.
(a) 1% 8111125113 ts ’{iié image :61 mm'1- . (3) I? 511311 come into force on such date as theState Government 'may, by hotification. appoii‘it.
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' Short title, extent and commencew meat, Defiaaxm Supply of tickets on payment of fares.
Prohibition against travelling without ticket.
Exhibition of tickets.
Travelling without ticket or with insufficient ticket or beyond authorised _, distance. > 7-1 2
(d) “ticke ” includes a duty, privilege or courtesy pass issued under the authority of the State Transport Undertaking;
(e) the words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the . Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 (No. 4 of 1939).
3. Every person desirous of travelling on aroad transport service carried by the State Transport Undertakings shall, upon payment of his fare, be supplied with a ticket by aservant of the State Transport.
' Undertaking authorised in this behalf or an agent duly appointed by the State‘ Transport Undertaking for the purpose Specifying the motor vehicle for which, the place from and the place to which the fare has been paid, and the amount of the fare.
4. No person shall enter or remain in any motor vehicle comprised in road transport service carried by the State Transport Undertaking for purpose of traVelling therein unless he has with him a proper ticket:
5. Whoever travels in any motor vehicle comprised in road transport service carried by the State TranSport Undertaking shall, on a requisition of any servant of the State Transport Undertaking authorised by it in this behalf, present his ticket to such servant for examination at or before the end of the journey for which ticket waS'issued.
6. (1) If a person travels in a motor vehicle comprised in road transport service carried by the State Transport Undertaking without} having'a proper ticket with him or having alighted from~ the motor vehicle, fails or refuses to present for examination his ticket imme'-" diately on requisition being made therefor under Section 5, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one ,month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or with both and shall also be liable to pay the excess charge hereinafter in this section mentioned in addition to the ordinary single fare for the distance which he has travelled, or Where there is any doubt as to the stage from which he started, the fare from the stage from which the motor vehicle originally started or the place where the tickets were last examined.
' .(2) The excess charges referred to in sub-section (1) shall be a sum equivalent to the ordinary single fare referred to in that sub-section or five rupees whichever is greater.
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7. If a servant of .
the State Transport 'Undertaking or apparent referred to in section 3, whose duty is to supply a ticket to a person who travels or intends to travel _in a motor vehicle comprised, in road transport serviCe carried by the State Transport Undertaking on payment of fare by him, negligently or wilfully omits to supply a ticket or supplies an invalid ticket, he shall be punishablecwithv imprisonment which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or with both.
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8. Any person, who travels or attempts to travel in 'a- motor vehicle comprised in road transport service carried by the State TranSport Undertaking without having proper ticket with him or beyond the place :authorised by his ticket or who being in a motor vehicle fails or-refuses to present for examination his ticket immediately on requisition being made therefor under section 5, may be removed from the motor vehicle by any servant of the State Transport Undertaking authorised in writing by it in this behalf or by any other person whom such servant may call to his aid unless he then and. there pays the fare :
Provided that no person shall be so removed from the motor vehicle between the hours 6 p. mg to 6 a; mi except either at the stage “at which he first entered the vehicle or at the stage at the head—quarters of a district or sub-division or at the first available office of the State TranSport Undertaking or at the nearest police stationi
9. If a person wilfully obstructs or impedes any servant of the “State Transport Undertaking in the discharge of his duty, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or with both.
10. Any offence committed under‘this Act may be cognizable «ofi'ence for the purpose of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Act No. 2 of 1974),
11. (1) The General Manager of the State Transport Undertaking, any officer or other employees specially empowered by him in this behalf in writing may, either before or after the institution of the proceedings, compound any offence made punishable by, or under, this Act.
(2) Where an offence has been compounded, the offender if in custody, shall be discharged and no further proceeding shall be taken against him in reSpect of the offence so compounded.
Breach, of .
, duty imposed on servant ' etc. of State Transport Undertaking under Section Power to remove persons from“ ‘ ' motor , vehicle.
‘ '- Obstruction to servant of State Transport Undertaking in his duty.
Cognizance of ofi‘ence.
Compounding of offences.
4 £313th
12.111 all trial§ of Offehcés under this Act, the Magistrate shall ‘ FolIoW the procedure prescribed in the Code of Criminal Procedure;
1975 (Aét No. 2 of 1974) for the trial of summary case§.
@355th 13-. (1.) Out of the amount recovered for an offence under?
and Single“ faretobepaid Seeticm 6 the excess eharges and single fare referred to in that section 319mgggosrttaw shall be paid to the State Tran8port Undertaking befOre any portion Undertakings. of that amount is credited as fine to the State Government;
Over ridi g 14. The provision of this Act shall have effect notwithstafiding fig?
°f tc anything inconsistent therewith contained in any osher Law;
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1-5. frhe State Government may make rules for carrying out all, or any of the purposes of this Act;