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THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PREVENTION OF TICKET LESS

TRAVEL IN ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICE ACT, 1976
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Sections:
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
2. Definitions.
3. Supply of tickets on payment of fares.
4. Prohibition against travelling without ticket.
5. Presentation of tickets.
6. Punishment for travelling without ticket or with insufficient
ticket or beyond authorised distance.
7. Punishment for breach of duty by the servant etc.
8. Power to remove persons from motor vehicle.
9. Punishment for obstructing servant of the State Transport
Undertaking in his duty.
10. Cognizance of offences.
11. Excess charge and single fare to be paid to the State Transport
Undertaking.
12. Overriding effect of the Act.
13. Power to make rules.
14. Repeal and savings.
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THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PREVENTION OF TICKETLESS
TRAVEL IN ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICE ACT, 1976
(ACT NO. 22 OF 1976)
[Received the assent of the President of India on the 20th May, 1976,
and was published in R.H.P. Extra., dated the 2nd June, 1976, p. 1271-1274].
An Act to provide for prevention of ticketless travel in the Motor Vehicles
operated by the Himachal Road Transport Corporation and for
other matters connected therewith.
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Himachal
Pradesh in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be
called the Himachal Pradesh Prevention of Ticketless Travel in Road
Transport Service Act, 1976.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Himachal Pradesh.
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(3) It shall come in to force on such date1 as the State Government

may, by notification in Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) fare means the total amount of all charges of whatever nature
payable by a person or group of persons in respect of his or
their carriage;
(b) High Court means the High Court of Himachal Pradesh;
(c) Road Transport Service means a service of motor vehicles
carrying persons or goods or both by road for hire or reward;
(d) State Transport Undertaking means any undertaking
providing road transport service, where such undertaking is
carried on by-
(i) the Central Government or the State Government;
(ii) the Himachal Road Transport Corporation established
under the Road Transport Act, 1950 (64 of 1950), (e)
"ticket" includes a duty, privilege or courtesy pass issued
under the authority of the State Transport Undertaking;
and
(f) other words and expressions under herein but not defined in this
Act, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Motor
Vehicles Act, 1939 (4 of 1939)
3. Supply of tickets on payment of fares.- Every person desirous of
travelling by a road transport service carried on by the State Transport
Undertaking, shall upon payment of his fare, be supplied with a ticket by a
servant of the State Transport Undertaking authorised in this behalf or an
agent duly appointed by the State Transport Undertaking for the Purpose,
specifying the amount of fare, the motor vehicle, the place from and the place
for which the fare has been paid.
4. Prohibition against travelling without ticket.- No person shall
enter or remain in any motor vehicle comprised in road transport service
carried by the State Transport Undertaking for the purpose of travelling
therein unless he has with him a proper ticket.
5. Presentation of tickets.- Whoever travels in any motor vehicle
comprised in road transport service carried on by the State Transport
Undertaking shall, on a requisition of any servant of the State Transport
Undertaking authorised by the Undertaking in this behalf, present his ticket to
such servant for examination at or before the end of thee journey for which
the ticket was issued.

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. Act come into force w.e.f. 29th September, 1976 vide Not. No. Tpt.6-20/76, dated
25th September, 1976, published in R.H.P. dated 29-9-1976, P. 1764.
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6. Punishment for travelling without ticket or with in-sufficient

ticket or beyond authorised distance.- (1) If any person travels by a motor
vehicle, comprised in road transport service carried on by the State Transport
Undertaking, without having a proper ticket with him or, having entered in or
having alighted from the motor vehicle, fails or refuses to present for
examination his ticket immediately on requisition being made therefor under
section 5, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty
rupees, or with both and shall also be liable to pay the excess charge
hereinafter in this section mentioned in addition to the ordinary single fare; for
the distance which he has travelled; or where there is any doubt as to the stage
from which he started, the fare from the stage from which the motor vehicle
originally started or place where the tickets were last examined.
(2) The excess charge referred in to sub-section (1) shall be a sum
equivalent to the ordinary single fare referred to in that sub-section or five
rupees whichever is greater.
7. Punishment for breach of duty by the servant etc.- If a servant
of the State Transport Undertaking or an agent referred in section 3, whose
duty is to supply tickets to persons travelling or intending to travel in a motor
vehicle comprised in road transport service carried on by the State Transport
Undertaking on payment of fare, negligently or wilfully omits to supply a
ticket or supplies an invalid ticket, he shall be punishable with imprisonment
which may extent to one month or with fine which may extend to two hundred
and fifty rupees or with both.
8. Power to remove persons from motor vehicle.- Any person, who
travels or attempts to travel in motor vehicle comprised in road transport
service carried on by the State Transport Undertaking without having proper
ticket with him or beyond the place authorised by him ticket or who being in a
motor vehicle fails or refuses to present for examination his ticket
immediately on requisition being made therefor under section 5, without
prejudice to any action under section 6, may be removed from the motor
vehicle by any servant of the State Transport Undertaking authorised in
writing by the Undertaking in this behalf or by any other person whom such
servant may call to his aid unless he then and there pays the fare :
Provided that no person shall be removed from the motor vehicle
between the hours 6 P.M. except either at the stage at which he first entered
the vehicle or at the stage at the Headquarters of the district or Tehsil.
9. Punishment for obstructing servant of the State Transport
Undertaking in his duty.- If a person wilfully obstructs or impedes any
servant of the State Transport Undertaking in the discharge of his duty, he
shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three months or
with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.
10. Cognizance of offences.- (1) All offences under this Act shall be
triable by Magistrates having jurisdiction in the area and especially
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empowered by the High Court under section 260 of the Criminal Procedure
Code, 1973 (2 of 1974) to try such offences in a summary way.
(2) No prosecution under this Act shall be instituted except on the
complaint in writing by such officer as may be authorised in this behalf by the
State Government.
11. Excess charge and single fare to be paid to the State Transport
Undertaking.- (1) Out of the amount recovered for an offence under section
6, the excess charge and single fare referred to in that section shall be paid to
the State Transport Undertaking before any portion of that amount is credited
as fine to the State Government.
(2) Out of the amount received under sub-section (1), the State
Transport Undertaking shall be liable to pay the Passenger Tax levied under
the Himachal Pradesh Passengers and Goods Taxation Act, 1955 (15 of 1955)
or any other taxes liable and payable under the provisions of any other law for
the time being in force.
12. Overriding effect of the Act.- The provisions of this Act shall
have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any
other law for the time being in force.
13. Power to make rules.- (1) The State A Government may by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out all or any of
the purposes of this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be
after it is made, before the legislative Assembly when it is in session for a
total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one
session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the
session in which it is so laid or the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes
any modification in the rules or decides that the rules should not be made, the
rules shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect,
as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under
that rule.
14. Repeal and savings.- (1) The Himachal Pradesh Prevention of
Ticketless Travel in Road Transport Service Ordinance, 1976 (1 of 1976) is
hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal anything done or any action taken
under the aforesaid Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken
under this Act as if this Act had commenced on the day when the repealed
Ordinance came into force.
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NOTIFICATIONS
Under
THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PREVENTION OF TICKETLESS
TRAVEL IN ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICE ACT, 1976
DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF ACT
TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
Shimla-2, the 25th September, 1976
No. Tpt.6-20/76.- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section
(3) of section 1 of the Himachal Pradesh Prevention of Ticketless Travel in
Road Transport Service Act, 1976 (Act No. 22 of 1976) the Governor,
Himachal Pradesh is pleased to order that the commencement of the said Act,
shall be the date of publication of this notification in the Rajpatra, Himachal
Pradesh.
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(R.H.P. dated 29-9-1976, P. 1764)
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OFFICERS AUTHORISED TO SANCTION PROSECUTION
TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
Shimla-171002, the 12th March, 1976.
No. TPT.6-8/75.- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section
(2) of section 10 of the Himachal Pradesh Prevention of Ticketless Travel in
Road Transport Service Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. 1 of 1976), the
Governor of Himachal Pradesh is pleased to authorise the following officers
to institute prosecution in all offences under this Ordinance:-
1. The Regional Managers, Himachal Road Transport Corporation.
2. Assistant Managers Himachal Road Transport Corporation.
3. Chief Inspectors, Himachal Road Transport Corporation
4. Inspectors, Himachal Road Transport Corporation.
5. Conductors, Himachal Road Transport Corporation.
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[6. Superintendent of Police, Sub-Inspector of Police, Head
Constable of Police posted in the Flying Squad of the Himachal
Pradesh Road Transport Corporation.]
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(R.H.P. Extra., dated the 15th March, 1976, p. 566).

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Item 6 subs. vide Not. No. TPT 6-20/76 dated 27th June, 1980, published in R.H.P.
Extra., dated 5-7-1980, p. 629.
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Note.- This Notification though issued under the Ordinance, continues to be in

force under the Act, vide sec. 14 (2).
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Appointment and Delegation
HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT
Shimla-2, the 7th January, 1977
No. HHC/Admn.6-(15)/74.- In exercise of the powers vested in them
by sub-section (1) of section 10 of the Himachal Pradesh Prevention of
Ticketless Travel in Road Transport Service Act, 1976, the Honble the Chief
Justice and Judges are pleased to empower all the Chief Judicial Magistrate in
Himachal Pradesh and the Traffic Magistrates, Shimla and Mandi who are
empowered to try offences under the above Act within the local limits of their
respective jurisdiction with immediate effect in a summary way.
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(R.H.P. dated 15-1-1977, P. 76).
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(6) Superintendent of Police, Sub-Inspector of Police, Head
Constable of Police posted in the Flying Squad of the Himachal Pradesh Road
Transport Corporation.
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(R.H.P. Extra., dated 5-7-1980, p. 629)
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(R.H.P. dated 11-9-1982, P. 784.)
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