Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) REGULATION 2018 - REG 218D

218D When a person using a token evades payment of a fare in relation to an approved vehicle

(1) This section sets out, for section 218C (1) , the circumstances in which a person using a token evades payment of a fare in relation to the use or hire of an approved vehicle.

(2) If a person travels or attempts to travel on an approved vehicle using a token for the journey, the person evades payment of a fare in relation to the vehicle if the person does not, without a reasonable excuse, tap on the token for the journey—

(a) for a journey that starts at a station with fare gates—on or before entering an area of the station that is inside the fare gates; or

(b) otherwise—on or before starting the journey.

(3) However, subsection (2) (a) does not apply in relation to a person who is in an area of a station that is inside the fare gates because the person has exited from an approved vehicle into the area.

(4) Subsection (5) applies if—

(a) a person has travelled on an approved vehicle; and

(b) the person tapped on a token for the journey.

(5) The person evades payment of a fare in relation to the approved vehicle if the person does not, without a reasonable excuse, tap off the token for the journey—

(a) for an approved vehicle that has a token reader—on exiting the vehicle; or

(b) otherwise—on or before entering an area that is outside the fare gates, or beyond the last token reader, at the station at which the person exited the vehicle.

(6) If a person is travelling on an approved vehicle using a token for the journey, the person evades payment of a fare in relation to the vehicle if the person, without a reasonable excuse—

(a) taps off the token for the journey before finishing the journey on the vehicle; or

(b) otherwise causes the payment of the fare for the journey to be processed, or the end of the journey to be recorded, before finishing the journey on the vehicle.