(1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Transport short title Undertakings (Prevention of Ticketless Travel) Act, 1975. and extent.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.
(a) "fare" means the amount payable for carriage of a person in a transport vehicle belonging to a Transport Undertaking;
(b) "State Transport Undertaking" includes,—
(i) the Calcutta State Transport Corporation,
(n) the North Bengal State Transport Corporation, and
(iii) the Durgapur State Transport Corporation, 64 of 1950. established under section 3 of the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950;
(c) "Transport Undertaking" includes,—
(i) any of the State Transport Undertakings, and
(ii) the Undertaking of the Calcutta Tramways Company Limited;
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(d) "transport vehicle" means a public service vehicle as defined in clause (25) of section 2 of the Motor 4 of 1939.
Vehicles Act, 1939, belonging to a State Transport Undertaking or a passenger vehicle belonging to the Undertaking of the Calcutta Tramways Company Limited;
(e) words and expressions used in this Act but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939.
Prohibition 3. No person shall travel in any transport vehicle without a proper against ticket issued for the journey.
travelling without ticket.
Supply of 4. Every person travelling in a transport vehicle shall, upon ticket on payment Of his fare, be supplied with a ticket for the journey which such payment of fare. person intends to perform or has already performed.
Exhibition 5. Any person who travels in a transport vehicle shall, whenever of ticket. required by an employee of a Transport Undertaking not below the rank of a conductor or any other person not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector of Police, to be authorised by the State Government in this behalf, present his ticket to such employee or other person for examination.
Penalty for ticketiess travel.