New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PASSENGER TRANSPORT REGULATION 2007 - REG 71

71 Valid tickets

(1) A ticket other than a travelcard is valid for travel only for the journey or journeys for which it is issued.

(2) A travelcard is valid for travel on a particular journey only if:

(a) the travelcard is scanned at an appropriate travelcard reader on or before the commencement of the journey, and

(b) there is sufficient credit recorded on the travelcard (whether in cash or in entitlement to travel) to permit travel, at the fare appropriate to the holder of the travelcard, for the stage of the journey immediately following the point at which the journey is commenced.

(3) A ticket transferred in contravention of clause 72 is not a valid ticket.

(4) In this clause, "stage" of a journey means:

(a) in the case of a journey by bus-the distance between the bus-stop at which the journey is commenced and the bus-stop at which the next following section commences, and

(b) in the case of a journey by ferry-the distance between the wharf at which the journey is commenced and the next following wharf.