130 Penalty fares

130  Penalty fares

(1)     [The Secretary of State[, the Welsh Ministers] and the Scottish Ministers shall each have power by regulations to] make provision for and in connection with—

(a)     the imposition of requirements on persons travelling by, present on, or leaving trains or stations to produce, if required to do so in accordance with the regulations, a ticket or other authority authorising them to travel by, be present on, or leave the train or station in question; and

(b)     the charging of persons in breach of such requirements to financial penalties (in this section referred to as “penalty fares”) in such circumstances, and subject to compliance with such conditions (if any), as may be prescribed;

and in this section any reference to a ticket or other authority of any description includes a reference to any other document which, under the regulations, is required to be produced in conjunction with any such ticket or other authority, for the purpose of demonstrating that the ticket or other authority produced by a person is valid in his case.

[(1ZA)     The power of the Welsh Ministers under this section to make provision for and in connection with the imposition of requirements on persons present

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