New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PASSENGER TRANSPORT REGULATION 2007 - REG 51

51 Limitation on eating and drinking in certain public passenger vehicles

(1) A passenger must not eat or drink in any taxi-cab.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) A passenger must not:

(a) drink any intoxicating liquor on any bus or ferry, unless the intoxicating liquor is supplied on the bus or ferry by, or with the permission of, the operator of the bus or ferry, or

(b) eat or drink on any bus or ferry, or part of a bus or ferry, in which eating and drinking is prohibited by signs displayed in the bus or ferry (or part of the bus or ferry), except with the written permission of the operator of the bus or ferry.

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(3) However, nothing in this clause prohibits a passenger from drinking water, or from eating or drinking for medical reasons, in or on a public passenger vehicle.

(4) In this clause, "drink", in relation to intoxicating liquor, includes be in possession of an opened container of intoxicating liquor.