Bare Act
The Sikkim Nationalised Transport (Prevention of Ticketless travel and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1981
General198145 sections
This law governs the Sikkim Nationalised Transport to maintain order and revenue by strictly preventing passengers from traveling without valid tickets. It creates penalties for those who attempt to ride using defaced, broken, or previously used tickets. Beyond passenger rules, the act imposes strict consequences on employees, such as drivers and conductors, who engage in cheating passengers by demanding unfair fares. Such officials face multiple penalties, including higher fare charges leading up to dismissal, while the Act also defines terminology for managing goods, luggage, and detentions within the state’s transport network.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Prohibition against travelling without ticket.
- 4. Amendment of Section 11.
- 5. Duty of conductor or employee of Sikkim Transport to issue tickets, etc.
- 6. Duty of passengers to obtain tickets.
- 7. Prohibition against boarding of transport vehicle en-route.
- 8. Exhibition of ticket and carriage receipt.
- 9. Penalty for carrying goods without carriage receipt.
- 10. Penalty for ticketless travel.
- 11. Penalty for dereliction of duty.
- 12. Power to remove persons from transport vehicles.
- 13. Obstructing employees of the Sikkim Transport or other authorised person in his duty.
- 14. Limits of personal luggage, etc.
- 15. Fares payable by passenger.
- 16. Exemptions and concessional rate of fares.
- 17. Penalty for drunkenness.
- 18. Penalty for false returns.
- 19. Entering transport vehicle without reservation or refusal to vacate the seat.
- 20. Entering transport vehicle in motion or otherwise improperly travelling.
- 21. Travelling on roof or steps.
- 22. Altering or defacing of ticket.
- 23. Fraudulent travelling or attempt to travel on a used ticket.
- 24. Penalty for transfer of ticket.
- 25. Smoking.
- 26. Drunkenness or nuisance in transport vehicle or at Bus Stop.
- 27. Disobedience by bus driver or conductor of direction of an employee.
- 28. Carriage of goods.
- 29. Maintenance of rates, etc. for carriage of goods.
- 30. Power to impose condition.
- 31. Forwarding Note.
- 32. Prohibition against carriage of offensive or dangerous goods.
- 33. Power of employee to weigh the goods.
- 34. Power to realise demurrage charges, etc.
- 35. Power of disposal of goods which remain undelivered.
- 36. Payment of carriage charges.
- 37. Deviation of route.
- 38. Surrender of carriage receipt.
- 39. Maximum carrying capacity of transport vehicle.
- 40. Carrying passengers in vehicle for carriage of goods.
- 41. Magistrate having jurisdiction under the Act.
- 42. Cases to be tried summarily.
- 43. Excess charge to be paid the Sikkim Transport.
- 44. Overriding effect of the Act.
- 45. Power to make rules.
PDF: pending for this language.