Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Transport (Passenger Vehicles) Regulations 2005 - SECT 40

Driver's ticketing obligations

40. Driver's ticketing obligations



(1) A driver of a public commercial passenger vehicle or a public passenger
vehicle operated for the purpose of a regular passenger service must, unless
there is a reasonable excuse, take the following steps when a passenger boards
the vehicle-

   (a)  if the passenger does not already hold a ticket, request that the
        passenger pay the correct fare for the whole of the travel the
        passenger is about to undertake in that vehicle and when sufficient
        money is given to the driver, issue the correct ticket to the
        passenger for that travel;

   (b)  if the passenger relies on an existing ticket which, in order to be
        made valid for the whole of the travel the passenger is about to
        undertake in that vehicle, must be inserted into a ticket validating
        machine-

   (i)  request that the passenger insert the ticket into the ticket
        validating machine on the vehicle so as to make the ticket valid; or

   (ii) if there is no ticket validating machine on the vehicle or if the
        machine is not operational, request that the passenger show the ticket
        to the driver;

   (c)  if a passenger pays for a ticket but does not take or accept it,
        immediately rip the ticket in half, leave it in the tray beside the
        driver that is used for the exchange of cash, tickets and other items
        between the driver and passengers until the passenger's travel in that
        vehicle ends.

Penalty: 5 penalty units.

(2) Subregulations (1)(a) and (1)(b) do not apply if the relevant passenger
has already taken the action which is otherwise to be the subject of a request
by the driver.

(3) For the purposes of subregulation (1)(b), a ticket is valid for the whole
of a passenger's travel if the ticket authorises the whole of that travel.