Reg. 5(1) def. of protective services officer inserted by S.R. No. 131/2011 reg. 5(b). protective services officer means a protective services officer appointed under section 118B(l) of the Police Regulation Act 1958; Reg. 5(1) def. of public commercial passenger vehicle amended by S.R. No. 114/2011 reg. 5(1). r. 5 public commercial passenger vehicle has the same meaning as in section 86(1) of the Act; Reg. 5(1) def. of retail agent inserted by S.R. No. 114/2011 reg. 6(2), amended by S.R. No. 95/2013 reg. 3. retail agent means a person (other than a passenger transport company or a bus company) engaged by the Public Transport Development Authority to act as its agent in relation to the sale of smartcards and payment for travel in a passenger vehicle or entry to a designated area; Reg. 5(1) def. of smartcard reader inserted by S.R. No. 84/2009 reg. 4(d). smartcard reader means a machine that is designed and intended to— (a) be used to electronically record and process information from a ticket that is a smartcard; and (b) perform related functions— when the smartcard is scanned by the machine as part of the actions necessary for the smartcard to be made valid for travel in a passenger vehicle or entry to a designated area regardless of whether or not at any particular time the machine is in working order;
Reg. 5(1) def. of smartcard security access module inserted by S.R. No. 114/2011 reg. 6(2). smartcard security access module means a computer microchip that stores security authentication and encryption keys that ensure that a prescribed device, when fitted with the smartcard security access module, is authorised to copy and transfer information between the prescribed device and— (a) a smartcard; and (b) the central computer system; Reg. 5(1) def. of the Act inserted by S.R. No. 95/2010 reg. 4. the Act means the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983; Reg. 5(1) def. of ticket amended by S.R. Nos 84/2009 reg. 4(e), 66/2014 reg. 4. r. 5 ticket means a ticket, pass, card, permit, authority, device, symbol or other thing issued, or which may be used, for the purpose of authorising travel in a passenger vehicle or entry to a designated area, and includes an on-the-spot penalty ticket; ticket barrier means a barrier which is intended to be used to regulate access to or egress from a part of a railway station that is a designated area; Reg. 5(1) def. of ticket validating machine amended by S.R. No. 84/2009 reg. 4(f). ticket validating machine means a machine which is designed and intended to be used to electronically record information about a ticket (other than a ticket that is a smartcard) when the ticket is inserted into the machine, or presented to the machine for scanning, regardless of whether or not at any particular time the machine is in working order;
Reg. 12(1)(a) substituted by S.R. No. 84/2009 reg. 8(1). (a) before commencing the travel, took all reasonable steps that were available— (i) to carry out a relevant action in relation to a ticket for the whole of the travel; and (ii) to carry out any additional actions necessary for the ticket to be made valid for the whole of the travel; and (b) while undertaking the travel, had no reasonable opportunity— Reg. 12(1)(b)(i) amended by S.R. No. 84/2009 reg. 8(2). (i) to carry out a relevant action in relation to a ticket for the whole of the travel and, if any additional actions were necessary for the ticket to be made valid for the whole of the travel, to carry out those actions; or (ii) to carry out any additional actions necessary for a ticket in the possession of the person on boarding the passenger vehicle to be made valid for the whole of the travel; and r. 12 (c) on completion of the travel, without delay took all reasonable steps that were available— Reg. 12(1)(c)(i) amended by S.R. No. 84/2009 reg. 8(3). (i) to carry out a relevant action in relation to a ticket for the whole of the travel and, if any additional actions were necessary for the ticket to be made valid for the whole of the travel, to carry out those actions; or (ii) to carry out any additional actions necessary for a ticket in the possession of the person to be made valid for the whole of the travel.
(3) In this regulation— relevant charge means a charge in relation to— (a) the ticket offence to which the offer of an opportunity to pay an on-the-spot penalty fare relates; or (b) any other on-the-spot penalty ticket offence in respect of the same use of public transport services. r. 14A __________________ Pt 2A (Heading and regs 14B–14G inserted by S.R. No. 66/2014 reg. 6. Reg. 14B inserted by S.R. No. 66/2014 reg. 6. 14B On-the-spot penalty ticket offences The offences against these regulations that are prescribed as on-the-spot penalty ticket offences are the offences against regulations 6(1), 6(2), 7(2), 8(2), 9(3) and 10(3). Reg. 14C inserted by S.R. No. 66/2014 reg. 6. 14C On-the-spot penalty fare amount—financial year starting on 1 July 2014 The amount prescribed for an on-the-spot penalty ticket for the financial year starting on 1 July 2014 is $75. Reg. 14D inserted by S.R. No. 66/2014 reg. 6. 14D On-the-spot penalty fare amount—financial years starting on 1 July 2015 r. 14B (1) The on-the-spot penalty fare must be adjusted, for the financial year starting on 1 July 2015 and for each subsequent financial year, in accordance with the following formula—
Reg. 22(a) amended by S.R. No. 131/2011 reg. 7. (a) a member of the police force, a protective services officer or an authorised officer acting in the course of his or her duties; (b) a person employed by a passenger transport company or a bus company acting in the course of his or her duties; (c) a person (other than a person referred to in paragraph (a) or (b)) who is authorised in writing to do or not do the thing by— (i) a passenger transport company or a bus company in respect of that company's passenger vehicles or designated areas owned or occupied by that company; or Reg. 22(c)(ii) amended by S.R. No. 22/2012 reg. 9(1). (ii) the Secretary or the Public Transport Development Authority; Reg. 22(d) amended by S.R. No. 22/2012 reg. 9(2). (d) a person who— (i) is travelling in a passenger vehicle; or (ii) is in a designated area— if the passenger transport company or bus company or the Secretary or the Public Transport Development Authority has determined that a ticket is not required for that travel or that entry to the designated area. r. 23 Examples for paragraph (d): Free travel to a major event. The Tram Service. Reg. 23 inserted by S.R. No. 95/2010 reg. 5. 23 Prescribed kind of portable device
(e) producing a printed record of information stored as described in paragraph (b) or (d). Sch. 2 8 The process containing the steps set out in the following paragraphs— (a) loading onto the central computer system information relating to one or a combination of the following— (i) smartcards; (ii) the use of smartcards; (iii) entitlements to use a public transport service; (b) storing the information loaded as described in paragraph (a) by the central computer system; (c) copying information stored as described in paragraph (b) by means of either or both a wired or wireless network to a vehicle control unit installed on a bus; (d) storing information copied as described in paragraph (c) by that vehicle control unit; (e) transferring or copying information stored as described in paragraph (d) to a Parkeon (Wayfarer) TCON product Melbourne: Bus Driver Console BDC installed on that bus; (f) storing by the central computer system information relating to the copying of the information copied as described in paragraph (c); (g) producing a printed record of information stored as described in paragraph (b) or (f). Information transferred etc. to and from a vehicle control unit installed on a bus Sch. 2 9 The process containing the steps set out in the following paragraphs—