The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013

Interpretation of Part 5

48.—(1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—

“authorised person” means, in relation to any purpose, a person authorised for that purpose by the promoter;

“fare ticket” means a ticket authorising the person in respect of whom it is issued to travel on a rapid transit vehicle;

“general travel authority” means any permit, other than a fare ticket, authorising the person in respect of whom it is issued to travel on a rapid transit vehicle;

“passenger” means a person travelling on a rapid transit vehicle;

“penalty fare” means a penalty fare payable under article 50 (penalty fares);

“the penalty fare provisions” means articles 50 (penalty fares) to 55 (exclusion of double liability); and

“rapid transit vehicle stop” means a station or other regular stopping place on the rapid transit system at which passengers may get on or off rapid transit vehicles.

(2) Any reference in this Part to a passenger producing a fare ticket or general travel authority on being required to do so by an authorised person is a reference to producing, when so required, a fare ticket or general travel authority which, either by itself or together with any other document produced by the passenger at the same time, is valid for the journey made by the passenger.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), a passenger who is on a rapid transit vehicle is taken to have made a journey ending at the next scheduled rapid transit stop.