Section 100: Regulating conduct of passengers

100. Regulating conduct of passengers (1) (a) The Minister may make regulations generally as to the conduct of— (i) passengers in public service vehicles; and (ii) persons at bus stands and at bus stopping places. (b) Without prejudice to the generality of the power under paragraph (a), the Minister may make regulations in particular in order to— (i) authorise the removal from a public service vehicle by the driver or conductor of the vehicle or, at the request of the driver or conductor, by any police officer, of any person infringing the regulations made under paragraph (a); (ii) require a passenger in a public service vehicle who is reasonably suspected by the driver or conductor of contravening the regulations made under paragraph (a) to give his name and address to a police officer or to the driver or conductor on demand; (iii) require a passenger to declare, if so requested by the driver or conductor, the journey he intends to take or has taken in the vehicle, and to pay the fare on demand for the whole of the journey and to accept any ticket provided for it; (iv) require, on demand being made for the purpose by the driver, conductor or other person authorised by the licensee of the vehicle, production during the journey and surrender at the end of the journey by the holder of any ticket issued to him; (v) require a passenger, if so requested by the driver or conductor, to leave the vehicle on the completion of the journey for which he has paid the fare; (vi) require the surrender by the holder of a ticket issued to him on the expiry of the period for which it is issued; R27 – 85 [Issue 1] Road Traffic Act (vii) regulate the conduct of persons waiting to enter public service vehicles, and the priority of entry into those vehicles, and provide for queues or lines to be formed and kept by those persons; and (viii) authorise the erection and maintenance of such barriers and posts as appear necessary for regulating the conduct of persons waiting to enter public service vehicles. (2) Any person who contravenes any regulation made under subsection (1) shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 2,500 rupees. [S. 100 amended by Act 5 of 1999.]