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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Tramways Act, 1886 Section 31

PENALTY FOR EVADING PAYMENT OF PROPER TOLL

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Tramways Act, 1886 Section 31 is part of Tramways Act, 1886 - PENALTY FOR EVADING PAYMENT OF PROPER TOLL. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) If any person traveling or having travelled in a carriage of the promoter or lessee or of a licensee evades or attempts to evade payment of toll, or if any person having paid toll for a certain distance wilfully proceeds in any such carriage beyond that distance and does not pay the additional toll for the additional distance or attempts to evade payment thereof, or if any person willfully refuses or neglects on arriving at the point to which he has paid toll to quit the carriage, he shall be punished with fine which may extend to ten rupees.

(2) When a person commits an offence under this section and refuses on demand of a servant of the promoter, lessee or licensee to give his name and residence, or gives a name or residence which the servant has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested and taken to the nearest police station by the servant or any person whom the servant may call to his aid.

(3) When the person is taken to the police-station he shall with the least possible delay be forwarded to the nearest Magistrate, unless his true name and residence are ascertained, in which case he shall be released on his executing a bond for his appearance before a Magistrate if so required.

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