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Formal Consolidation |  2012 RevEd
Payment of penalty fee
24C.—(1)  Where a public transport official is satisfied that any person has made use of a bus service or rapid transit system service without paying the appropriate fare for the distance which he has travelled, the public transport official may, subject to any specific or general direction given by the Council, require such person to pay a penalty fee of such amount as may be prescribed by the Council.
[37/2005]
(2)  Any person who is required by a public transport official to pay a penalty fee under subsection (1) shall pay the penalty fee —
(a)to that public transport official immediately in such mode of payment as may be determined by the Council; or
(b)within such time and at such place as may be specified by the public transport official.
[37/2005]
(3)  Upon the payment of the penalty fee under subsection (2), the public transport official shall issue a receipt to the person who paid the penalty fee.
[37/2005]
(4)  Any person who is required by a public transport official to pay a penalty fee under subsection (1) may, if aggrieved by that requirement, appeal within the prescribed period and in accordance with the prescribed procedure to the Council or to an officer authorised by the Council to hear such appeal and the decision of the Council or authorised officer shall be final.
[37/2005]
(5)  Any person who fails or refuses to pay any penalty fee referred to in subsection (1) or, if he has made an appeal under subsection (4), pursuant to an order made by the Council or an authorised officer to pay the penalty fee following the appeal shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
[37/2005]
Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 31 of 2015
Penalty fee for bus fare or train fare evasion
24C.—(1)  A public transport official who believes on reasonable grounds that an individual —
(a)who is travelling or attempting to travel or has travelled on a bus that is part of a bus service provided by a public bus operator; or
(b)who is travelling or is attempting to travel (including entering a paid area within any railway premises) or has travelled on a train that is part of a train service provided by a licensed rapid transit system,
is evading or has evaded payment of the fare lawfully required of the individual’s use of the bus or train, as the case may be, may, by notice, offer the individual concerned an opportunity to pay a penalty fee of the prescribed amount.
(2)  Every offer of an opportunity to pay a penalty fee is subject to directions given by the Council under section 24A(5).
(3)  An individual who is given an offer by a public transport official of an opportunity to pay a penalty fee under subsection (1) may, within the prescribed period and in accordance with the prescribed procedure, appeal to the Council to hear such appeal against the offer.
(4)  On receiving an appeal under subsection (3), the Council, or an officer designated by the Council to hear the appeal, may —
(a)confirm the offer by the public transport official, and vary the time within which the penalty fee must be paid; or
(b)cancel the offer by the public transport official the making of which is, in the opinion of the Council or officer, not equitable,
and every decision on appeal is final.
(5)  An individual who is offered by a public transport official an opportunity to pay a penalty fee may accept the offer by paying the penalty fee, or by arranging for another person to pay the penalty fee —
(a)immediately to the public transport official; or
(b)to another person directed by the public transport official and authorised by the Council to receive payments of penalty fees or to the Council itself,
in the manner and within the time determined by the Council or under subsection (4)(a) if an appeal under subsection (3) is made.
(6)  An offer of an opportunity to pay a penalty fee is withdrawn if the penalty fee is not paid within the time referred to in subsection (5).
(7)  On receiving payment of the penalty fee under subsection (5)(a), the public transport official must give the individual a receipt acknowledging that payment.
(8)  An individual who pays (by himself or by arrangement with another) a penalty fee in accordance with subsection (5) cannot be prosecuted for an offence under section 24CA or offered composition under section 26.
[Act 31 of 2015 wef 29/02/2016]