### Mass Transit Railway By-laws 《香港鐵路附例》

9. Wrongfully entering or leaving trains
(1) No person shall enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave any train after the doors have commenced to close. (L.N. 201 of 1994; L.N. 156 of 2007)
(2) No person shall interfere with any doors or gates within the railway premises including any train doors and platform screen doors. (L.N. 156 of 2007)

10. Tickets
(L.N. 156 of 2007)(1) All tickets issued by or on behalf of the Corporation are issued subject to these by-laws and to the conditions of issue.
(1A) All tickets which were issued by or on behalf of KCRC before the Merger Date and which continue to have effect from the Merger Date until their expiry by virtue of section 3(2)(a) of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (Suspension of Bylaws) Bylaw 2007 (L.N. 162 of 2007) shall from the Merger Date be regarded as tickets issued by or on behalf of the Corporation subject to these by-laws and to the conditions of issue. (L.N. 156 of 2007)
(2) Any person to whom or on whose behalf a ticket is issued or who otherwise acquires a ticket shall be deemed to have knowledge of and to have agreed to these by-laws and to the conditions of issue.
(L.N. 201 of 1994)

11. Fares
The fares appearing in notices, lists or tables published from time to time by the Corporation and posted at stations are the authorized fares for travel upon the railway.

12. Tickets contain no warranty or acceptance of liability
(1) The Corporation does not warrant that a passenger will be conveyed on any particular train or that any train shall depart or arrive at a particular time or times or that the issue of a ticket will be completed before the departure of any train and the Corporation will not be liable to any person for any loss or damage arising from any delay or detention caused by the alteration, suspension or withdrawal of the Corporation’s train services (or a part thereof) for any reason whatsoever.
(2) The Corporation may at its discretion and without being liable to any person for any loss or damage caused thereby—
(a) suspend or discontinue the issue of tickets whether issued from a ticket office or by an automatic vending machine;
(b) despatch any train from a station before the arrival of any other train without affording the passengers in the arriving train an opportunity to alight and board the departing train; and
(c) suspend, discontinue or otherwise withdraw all or any train services from any station on any day or suspend, discontinue or withdraw the running of any train or alter the times of departure or arrival of any train.

### Mass Transit Railway By-laws 《香港鐵路附例》

12A. Insufficient class accommodation
(1) The Corporation shall not be liable for any failure to carry a passenger in any first class compartment of any train where there is insufficient first class accommodation. In case of such insufficient accommodation, a ticket may be refunded before the passenger in respect of whom the ticket has been issued travels on any train.
(2) Where there is insufficient first class accommodation on any train for which a ticket has been issued, a passenger holding a first class ticket may travel in standard class accommodation without the right to claim a refund of the appropriate difference in fare.
(L.N. 156 of 2007)

13. Compliance with conditions of issue
(1) No person shall enter, leave or travel upon or attempt to enter, leave or travel upon the railway otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of issue.
(2) Every passenger shall leave the paid area within such period as may be prescribed in the conditions of issue failing which he shall, where he has no reasonable excuse for remaining within the paid area after the expiry of such period, pay the maximum fare for a single direction journey on the railway as specified in the conditions of issue.
(L.N. 201 of 1994)

14. Entry and travel prohibited without ticket
No person shall, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse—
(a) enter or leave, or attempt to enter or leave, the paid area; or
(b) travel or attempt to travel upon any part of the railway,
without first paying his fare and obtaining a valid ticket appropriate to the circumstances of his intended journey and using that ticket by inserting it into an automatic gate or by using it in an appropriate manner over the electronic sensor of an automatic gate as may be required by the conditions of issue of such ticket on entering or leaving the paid area or otherwise producing it and delivering it up to an official.
(L.N. 201 of 1994)

14A. Failure to pay fares, etc.
No person shall, prior to leaving the paid area, fail or refuse to pay any fare, surcharge or other sum leviable in accordance with these by-laws.
(L.N. 201 of 1994)

### Mass Transit Railway By-laws 《香港鐵路附例》

15. Travel where ticket is lost, damaged or expired
(1) If a person (other than a person who is under the age of 3 years) is within the paid area—
(a) without a ticket;
(aa) with a ticket which is invalid for travel in the carriage or compartment of the train in which the ticket holder is travelling, and in the case of a passenger travelling in a first class compartment, with a smart card which has not had the authorization code for first class travel encoded on it by an automatic processing device immediately prior to the ticket holder entering a first class compartment; (L.N. 156 of 2007)
(b) with a ticket improperly damaged, altered or interfered with or whose coded data has been improperly altered, erased or damaged either wholly or in part;
(c) with a ticket that has expired; or
(d) with a concessionary ticket when he does not meet any of the conditions upon which the ticket is issued, (L.N. 201 of 1994)
he shall be regarded as not having paid his fare and shall be liable both to pay a surcharge and to deliver up his ticket (if any) to an official.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a ticket shall expire in such circumstances as are provided for in the conditions of issue. (L.N. 201 of 1994)
(2A) For the purpose of this by-law, passengers occupying seats or standing including those in corridors or gangways in a first class compartment shall be regarded as travelling in a first class compartment. (L.N. 156 of 2007)
(3) Any person who has paid a surcharge or delivered up his ticket pursuant to the provisions of this by-law shall be entitled to apply in writing to the Chief Executive Officer (or his appointed nominee) for a review of the circumstances in which he became liable to a surcharge or to deliver up his ticket and the Chief Executive Officer (or his appointed nominee) upon the conclusion of such review may at his absolute discretion reject such application or may authorize repayment of the whole or any part of the surcharge or the remaining value on the delivered up ticket. (L.N. 156 of 2007)
(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), any passenger holding a ticket who travels beyond a station for which his ticket is valid shall be liable to pay the excess fare specified in the conditions of issue.
(L.N. 201 of 1994)