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The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II - Section 2
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No. 60 ) NEW DELHI , MONDAY , DECEMBER 9 , 1963 / AGRAHAYANA 18 , 1885
RAJYA SABHA
The following Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 9th December , 1963 : -
BILL NO . XL OF 1963
A Bill further to amend the Indian Railways Act , 1890 .
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fourteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. This Act may be called the Indian Railways ( Amendment ) Short title . Act, 1963 .
9 of 189 .
Amendment of section 66 .
2. In section 66 of the Indian Railways Act, 1890 ( hereinafter referred to as the principal Act ) , in sub - section ( 1 ) , after the words " be supplied with a ticket " , the words " by a railway servant or an agent authorised by the railway administration in this behalf " shall be inserted .
3. For section 70 of the principal Act , the following section shall Substitution be substituted , namely :-
of new section for Prohibition against trans- fer of certain tickets . section 70 .
has been made , or a return ticket or season ticket , shall not be transferable and may be used only by the person for whose journey to and from the places specified thereon it was issued : "70. A ticket against which reservation of a seat or berth
Provided that nothing herein shall prevent mutual transfer of seats or berths reserved against proper tickets by passengers travelling by the same train. " .
4. For section 114 of the principal Act , the following section Substitution shall be substituted , namely: -
" 114. ( 1 ) If a person , not being a railway servant or an agent authorised by the railway administration in this behalf,
of new section for section 114 . Penalty or transfer of tickets .
(a) sells or attempts to sell any ticket or any half of a return ticket , or
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(b ) parts or attempts to part with the possession of a ticket against which reservation of a seat or berth has been made , or any half of a return ticket , or a season ticket ,
in order to enable any other person to travel therewith , he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months , or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees , or with both , and shall also for'eit the fore which he may have paid and the ticket which he may have sold or attempted to sell .
(2) If a person purchases any ticket referred to in clause (a ) of sub - section ( 1 ) , or obtains the possession of any ticket referred to in clause ( b ) of that sub- section from any other person, not being a railway servant or an agent authorised by the railway administration in this behalf , he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months , or with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees , or with both , and if the purchaser or holder of any ticket aforesaid travels or attempts to travel therewith , he shall forfeit the ticket which he may have purchased or obtained and shall be deemed to be travelling without having a proper ticket with him, and shall be liable to be dealt with under section 113. " .
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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
Several complaints have been received in recent years that in big cities , tickets for railway journeys are purchased and seats or berths are reserved in railway trains by persons other than bona fide passengers . Such tickets and reservations are subsequently trans- ferred unauthorisedly to others for illegal consideration . Such malpractices , apart from causing great hardship and inconvenience to genuine passengers , have subjected the Railways to criticism.
2. The Indian Railways Act , 1890 , does not contain any provision to deal with such malpractices . It is , therefore felt , in these cir- cumstances , that in order to deal with these malpractices effectively , penal provisions for these malpracticeshould be incorporated in the Indian Railways Act , 1890 .
3. The present Bill seeks to achieve this object .
HC DASAPPA .
NEW DELHI ;
The 18th November , 1963 .
B. N. BANERJEE ,
Secretary .
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