PREVENTION OF NUISANCES AND REGULATION OF TRAVELLING RULES

PREVENTION OF NUISANCES AND REGULATION OF TRAVELLING RULES

PREVENTION OF NUISANCES AND REGULATION
OF TRAVELLING RULES.
(Cap. -107, Section -02).
(Ordinance No. 10 Of 1902).

{31st December, 1915.]

Rules inade by the company.
1. These rules shall extend and apply to all cars used on the
tramways and to all places in respect of which the company has for the
time being power to make rules.

2. The tickets of the company are issued on the condition that the
rules made by the company are observed.

3. No person shall travel or attempt to travel as a passenger on a
car in any class if a notice has been put up in the said car stating that
the accommodation in that class is fully taken up.

4. No person shall travel or attempt to travel on the top of any car
in excess of the number of passengers for which seating
accommodation is provided on the top of such car.

5. No passenger shall enter or depart from a car from that side
which is on the right hand of the motorman.

6. No person shall converse with the driver of any car while such
driver is on duty..

7. No passenger shall take any luggage on a car of a description
calculated in the opinion of the conductor to annoy or inconvenience
other passengers. All personal and other luggage shall be carried by the
passenger unless the conductor requires it to be put in some particular
place in which case the passenger, sh all comply with the requirements
of the conductor.

8. No passenger shall smoke so as to cause nuisance or
inconvenience to other passengers.





9. No person shall spit inside or upon any car.
10. No passenger or other person shall while travelling in or
upon any car play or perform on any musical instrument.
11. No person in a state of intoxication or affected with any
infectious or contagious disease shall enter or mount or attempt
to enter or mount an), car. Any such person found on any car
shall leave on request, and in default of compliance, may be
removed by or under the direction of the conductor.
12. No person shall swear or use obscene or offensive
language whilst in or upon any car or commit any nuisance in or
upon or against any car or any premises or property of the
company or interfere with the comfort of any passenger.
13. No person whose dress or clothing might in the opinion
of the conductor soil or injure the seats or fittings of a car or the
dress or clothing of any passenger, and no person who in the
opinion of the conductor might for any other reason be offensive
to passengers, shall be entitled to enter or remain in or on any car
and shall leave on request. Any such person may be prevented
from entering any car and shall not enter any car if requested not
to do so by the conductor; and if found in or on any car shall on
the request of the conductor leave the car upon the fare, if
previously paid, being returned.
14. Every passenger shall upon demand pay to the conductor
the fare legally demandable for the journey and accept a ticket
corresponding thereto, but this rule shall not apply to a monthly
ticket holder or to Government postmen and policemen on duty
and in uniform.
15. Every passenger shall when required show the ticket or
monthly ticket given to him covering the journey lie is travelling
on, or any, free pass held by him, to the conductor or to any duly
authorized servant of the company and shall also, when required,
either deliver up any such ticket or pass for inspection or pay the
fare legally demandable for the distance travelled over by such
passenger.





16. No passenger shall use or attempt to use any monthly
ticket which is not issued in the passenger's own name or upon
the face of which the passenger's own name does not appear and
no monthly, ticket holder shall sell or transfer or attempt to sell or
transfer the monthly ticket of which lie is the holder to any other
person.
17. In the event of summary conviction of any person in
respect of any breach or non-observance of these rules relating
to monthly tickets, it shall be lawful for the company to give
notice in writing to the holder of the monthly ticket in respect of
which any person has been summarily convicted of a breach or
non-observance of these rules that such monthly ticket is
cancelled, and forthwith after the receipt of any such notice such
monthly ticket shall not be available for use for travelling on any
car, and the holder thereof shall deliver the same to the offices of
the company for cancellation and, provided that the person so
summarily convicted is not the holder of such monthly ticket, then
upon the holder delivering the same up for cancellation at the
offices of the company, the company shall refund to him such
proportionate part of the cost thereof as represents the number of
days unexpired upon the ticket at the date of the giving of the
notice provided for in this rule.
18. Any reference in these rules to the holder of a monthly
ticket shall be deemed to refer to and include any, person to
whom and in whose name the company issues a monthly ticket
and whose name appears on the face thereof.
19. Tickets shall only be available for the car on which they
are issued. Every passenger who leaves a car for any reason and
resumes his journey by another car shall pay a fresh fare from
the point at which lie enters the second car.
20. No passenger or any other person not being an official or
servant of the company shall travel on the front, back, steps or
sides of a tramcar or elsewhere than in or upon that space, or a
part thereof, within the tramcar provided for the accommodation
of passengers. Any, person travelling in contravention of this rule
shall immediately cease so to do upon request by the conductor
or motorman of the tramcar or any other official of the company
or by any police officer in uniform.
21. No person except a passenger or intending or passenger shall
enter or mount any car.
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22. No person shall enter, mount or leave or attempt to
enter, mount or leave any car whilst in motion.

23. No person shall take a dog or other animal into or on any
car except by permission of the conductor. Any dog or other
animal taken into or on any car which becomes
,a nuisance or annoyance to passengers or which interferes with
or gets in the way of the driver or the driving or controlling
apparatus of the car shall be removed by the person in charge of
such dog or other animal frorn the car immediately upon request
of the conductor, and in default of compliance with such request,
may be removed by or under the direction of the conductor.

24. No person shall enter, get upon or travel in or on any car
with loaded firearms or with any article, instrument or implement
which may In the opinion of the conductor be dangerous or
offensive to any passenger.

25. No person sliall stand in such a position on the car as to
hamper the motorman in any way or shall touch any part of the
controlling gear of any car.

26. No passenger shall stand oil the platform of a car after
being requested to go inside by the conductor. No passenger shall
stand or travel in any exit passage-way.

27. Any person who requires change to be given him before
fie is able to pay his right fare shall, if the conductor is unable to
give him change, upon request immediately leave tile car.

28. No person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any officer or
servant of the company, in the execution of his duty upon or in
connexion with an), car or tramway of the company.

29. The conductor of each car shall enforce or prevent a
breach of these rules to the best of his ability.





30. If the conductor has reason to believe that any
person has committed a breach of any rule made by the
company, he shall be entitled to ask such person for his
name and address in Hong Kong and any such person shall
on demand forthwith furnish to the conductor his true name
and his true address in Hong Kong.

31. Any person offending against or committing a G.N. 112147.
breach of any of these rules shall be liable to a penalty of
one hundred dollars.

32. In these rules, 'conductor' shall include any
officer or servant in the employment of the company and
having charge either temporarily or otherwise of a car and
shall also include an inspector of the company.

33. These rules may be cited as the Prevention of
Nuisances and Regulation of Travelling Rules.
Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, p. 542. G.N. 67/46. G.N. 112/47.
G.N. 67/46.
G.N. 112/47.

Regulations Fraser, vol. 2, p. 542. G.N. 67/46. G.N. 112/47.
G.N. 67/46.
G.N. 112/47.

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