NORTHERN IRELAND RAILWAYS COMPANY LIMITED BYE-LAWS

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1 NORTHERN IRELAND RAILWAYS COMPANY LIMITED BYE-LAWS Regulating the use and working of and travel on Railways and the maintenance of order on or in connection with the Railway and the conduct of all persons on Railway property. Made under Section 57 of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 by Northern Ireland Railways Company Limited and confirmed by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. 1. In these Byelaws unless the context otherwise requires the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them: authorised person means any officer, employee or agent of the Company, and includes any Police Constable acting in the execution of his duty; Company means the Northern Ireland Railways Company Limited; intoxicating liquor has the meaning assigned to it by Section 84(1) of the Licensing Act (Northern Ireland) 1971; lift means any lift, escalator, moving pavement or moving platform on the railway; Notifiable disease means any disease specified in section 1 of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) pay and display machine means an apparatus designed to issue a ticket indicating the day and time at which the ticket is issued and the number of hours for which the ticket is valid; railway means the railways and railway premises belonging to, or leased to the Company including stations, the approaches to stations and carparks; railway vehicle means a vehicle which is intended or adapted for use on the railway and includes any compartment of a railway vehicle and any machine or implement capable of being drawn or propelled along the tracks of the railway; road vehicle means a vehicle (whether mechanically propelled or not) which is intended or adapted for use on roads; ticket means any ticket or document issued for the conveyance of any passenger, animal or article on the railway, or any platform ticket, or parking ticket, and includes any warrant, identity card, voucher or other similar authority in exchange for which or on production of which, any ticket for the conveyance of a passenger may be issued; ticket barrier means any machine or apparatus for the collection or examination of tickets or any place or point at which tickets are, or are liable to be, collected or examined; 2. Any person contravening any of these Byelaws, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 1,000 for each offence and in the case of a continuing offence a further penalty not exceeding 10 for each day after written notice of the offence has been given by the Company to such person. 3. A person who is reasonably suspected of contravening, or attempting to contravene, any of these Byelaws shall give his name and address to any authorised person when requested to do so, and any such person may be removed from the railway or any part thereof or any lift or railway vehicle by any authorised person, without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of any such Byelaw. 4. A person shall not at any station upon the railway at which entrance to or egress from a platform or premises leading to or from a platform is controlled by means of an employee of the Company or a ticket barrier, automatic or otherwise, enter or leave, or attempt to enter or leave, such platform or other premises without passing by such employee or through such ticket barrier as the case may be. 5. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) a person shall not travel or attempt to travel on any railway vehicle unless he or someone on his behalf obtains a valid ticket by any one of the following methods:

2 (a) at a station with a booking office which is open for business by purchasing a ticket at the booking office before entering any railway vehicle; (b) at a station with ticket vending machines by purchasing a ticket at such a machine before entering any railway vehicle; (c) at a station with an employee of the Company on duty selling tickets by purchasing a ticket from the employee; or (d) by pre-purchase of a ticket before arrival at the station from any booking office or person or Company authorised to sell tickets. (2) Where it is not possible to purchase a ticket by any of the methods described in paragraph (1) a person may board a railway vehicle without a ticket, but shall make very effort to (a) purchase a ticket from an employee on duty in the railway vehicle; (b) purchase a ticket from a ticket vending machine on board the railway vehicle; or (c) purchase a ticket from a booking office, employee on duty selling tickets or a vending machine at his destination station. (3) A person shall not purchase or attempt to purchase any ticket at a reduced rate unless that person is entitled to do so by means of age or is in possession of a valid reduced rate identity card made out in his name and shall when requested by an authorised person, produce evidence of his date of birth. (4) A person shall not (a) travel or attempt to travel on any journey for which he has not obtained a valid ticket in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2); (b) travel in a class of seating superior to that permitted by his ticket; (c) take advantage of any concession or reduced rate to which he is not entitled; or (d) travel or attempt to travel with a ticket issued to some other person. (5) A person in possession of a valid ticket for any journey shall where the conditions of issue of the ticket demand it, have the ticket validated or cancelled (a) by an authorised person; (b) by a validating machine at the entrance to or situated anywhere on the station premises; or (c) by a validating machine on board a railway vehicle. 6. (1) A person shall not (a) alter, deface, mutilate or destroy any ticket; or (b) use or attempt to use any ticket which has been materially altered, defaced or mutilated with intent to defraud the Company. (2) A person shall if so requested by an authorised person deliver up any ticket which has expired or has been altered, defaced or mutilated. 7. (1) Subject to paragraph (3) a person shall not (a) sell or purchase, or attempt to sell or purchase, any ticket; or (b) transfer or receive any partly used ticket with the intent that any other person shall use the ticket. (2) A person shall not knowingly use, or attempt to use, any ticket which has been sold, purchased, transferred or received in contravention of paragraph (1). (3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any transaction in relation to a ticket whereby the ticket is sold or transferred by an authorised person. 8. Where the fare from any station to an intermediate station exceeds the fare to a more distant station, a person shall not for the purpose of travelling to such intermediate station, take, use or attempt to use a ticket for the more distant station with intent to avoid payment of the additional fare to such intermediate station. A person who contravenes this Byelaw shall forfeit his ticket and shall be liable to the Company for the full fare for the distance actually travelled without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the contravention of this Byelaw.

3 9. A person of either sex above the age of 10 years shall not enter, attempt to enter or remain in any railway vehicle or place on the railway marked or notified as being reserved or appropriated for the exclusive use of persons of the other sex. 10. A person shall not enter or attempt to enter any lift or railway vehicle through any door thereof until all persons who are leaving or are on the way to leave such lift or railway vehicle through such door shall have passed out of such door. 11. A person other than an authorised person shall not (1) operate, move, work, or tamper with any mechanical or electrical appliance on the railway or any switch, lever or other device operating or controlling such appliance except: (a) in cases of emergency, any switch, lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated in cases of emergency; (b) in the case of a door, automatic or otherwise in any railway vehicle or lift (where such door is immediately adjacent to and gives immediate access to, and such vehicle is stationary at, a platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the vehicle or lift) any switch, lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated by passengers to open or close such door and the person operating such switch, lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance intends to enter or leave by such door; (c) any switch, lever or other device or mechanical or electrical appliance provided in a compartment of any vehicle for the operation or control of any heating, ventilating or lighting apparatus by passengers therein; or (d) any automatic vending or money changing machine, public telephone or other similar equipment. (2) except in case of accident or other emergency, open or attempt to open any gate or door of any life-shaft or any lift, or unfasten or tamper with or wilfully impede or interfere with the operation of any fastening or fitting on any such gate or door; (3) enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave, any lift (which is not an escalator or moving pavement or moving platform) whilst it is in motion or otherwise than at the side appointed for passengers to enter or leave; (4) ascend or attempt to ascend any escalator or stairway which is provided for descending; (5) descend or attempt to descend any escalator or stairway which is provided for ascending; (6) travel or attempt to travel, upon an escalator or moving pavement or moving platform in a direction other than the direction in which it is moving, or sit upon any escalator or moving pavement or moving platform; (7) use any escalator or moving pavement or moving platform in contravention of any warning displayed in a conspicuous position on or near such escalator or moving pavement or moving platform; (8) open, or attempt to open, any gate, or ticket barrier leading to or from a platform at a station upon the railway. 12. Except in case of accident or other emergency, a person other than an authorised person shall not (1) open the door, or stand or attempt to stand on the step or foot-board of any railway vehicle whilst it is in motion or is between stations; (2) open the door of any railway vehicle other than a door at the side of the railway vehicle adjoining the platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the railway vehicle while the railway vehicle is at a station; (3) enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave any railway vehicle whilst it is in motion or between stations or otherwise than at the side of the railway vehicle adjoining the platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave the railway vehicle;

4 (4) in the case of any railway vehicle equipped with automatic doors, enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave the railway vehicle after the doors have commenced to close; (5) in the case of any railway vehicle or lift in the railway equipped with automatic doors, obstruct or attempt to obstruct the opening or closing of such doors; or (6) where notices are exhibited in any railway vehicle or on the railway indicating that a door shall be used for entrance thereto and another door for exit therefrom, enter or attempt to enter by door indicated for exit or leave or attempt to leave by the door indicated for entrance. 13. Except in the case of accident or other emergency, a person shall not interfere with or use or attempt to use any doorway or equipment provided for emergency use. 14. A person other than an authorised person shall not interfere with, move, set in motion or stop, or attempt to interfere with, move, set in motion or stop, any lift or railway vehicle or automatic door except: (1) in case of emergency by means of a switch or appliance on or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated in case of emergency; or (2) in the case of an automatic door, in any lift or railway vehicle (when such door is immediately adjacent to and gives immediate access to and such railway vehicle or lift is stationary at a platform or place appointed for passengers to enter or leave such railway vehicle or lift), by means of a switch, lever or appliance on or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended to be operated by passengers to open or close such door. 15. A person other than an authorised person shall not mount or attempt to mount any railway vehicle except on such part as is provided for the carriage of passengers or remain in any accommodation provided for the train crew. 16. When a lift (not being an escalator or moving pavement or moving platform) or railway vehicle contains the full number of passengers which it is constructed to carry an additional person shall not enter or remain therein. 17. (1) Except with the consent in writing of the Company a person knowingly suffering from any notifiable disease shall not enter into or remain on, and a person having custody, charge or care of such person shall not cause or permit such person to enter into or remain on, any railway vehicle or railway. (2) An authorised person may refuse to receive or carry any person suffering from any notifiable disease, or to permit such person to enter into or remain, in any railway vehicle or the railway, or to travel on the railway. (3) Any person suffering from any notifiable disease and any person having the custody, charge or care of any such person, may be removed from any railway vehicle or, as the case may be, from the railway by, or under the direction of, an authorised person and, without prejudice to any penalty incurred by such contravention, shall be liable to the Company for the cost of disinfecting any premises or railway vehicle in which such person has been and to make good any other damage to the property of the Company caused by the contravention of this Byelaw. 18. (1) A person who is in a state of intoxication shall not enter or remain on the railway. (2) An authorised person may (a) refuse access to any railway vehicle or any lift on the railway to any person who is in a state of intoxication, or in an unfit or improper condition to travel, or whose dress or clothing is in a condition liable to soil or damage the linings or cushions of any railway vehicle or the dress or clothing of any other person; (b) require any such person as aforesaid, to leave any railway vehicle or the railway as soon as he can safely do so. (3) (a) A person shall not take, or attempt to take, any intoxicating liquor or substance into,

5 or onto, any railway vehicle, or have in his or her possession any intoxicating liquor or substance in or on any railway vehicle, in respect of which railway vehicle notice is given prohibiting the taking of intoxicating liquor or substance therein or thereon. (b) A person who has in his possession any intoxicating liquor or substance in or on any railway vehicle in respect of which notice has been given as aforesaid, shall not remain or attempt to remain in or upon such railway vehicle, or the railway or any part thereof, when requested by an authorised person not to do so. (c) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement under paragraph (2)(b) or a request under paragraph (3)(b) may be removed from the railway or any part thereof or any railway vehicle by an authorised person, without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw. 19. A person shall not at any time, while in any railway vehicle or on the railway (1) use any threatening, abusive, obscene or offensive language; (2) display any flag, banner or emblem which is likely to give offence to any person or to cause a breach of the peace; (3) behave in a riotous, disorderly, threatening, indecent or offensive manner; (4) write, draw or affix any word, representation or character upon, or wilfully soil or defile, the railway or any lift or railway vehicle; (5) molest or wilfully interfere with the comfort or convenience of any passenger or person in or upon the railway; (6) organise or take part in any public assembly, demonstration or procession which is likely to obstruct or interfere with the proper use of the railway or the comfort, convenience or safety of any person, or to cause public disorder; (7) use the seats provided in any railway vehicle for a purpose other than sitting thereon; (8) deliberately inhale any volatile substance except for medical purposes. 20. A person shall not smoke or carry a lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette in any part of any railway vehicle or of the railway where smoking is expressly prohibited by the Company by a notice, or sign, exhibited in a conspicuous position upon or near such part of the railway vehicle or of the railway or, if requested by an authorised person not to do so, in or upon any part of the railway where smoking or carrying a lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette may be dangerous. 21. (1) A person in any railway vehicle or on the railway, if requested by an authorised person not to do so, shall not sing, recite or perform, with or without any musical or other instrument, or cause or permit any noise to be made by the operation of any record player, tape recorder, radio, television or similar instrument, being a noise which is so loud or continuous or repeated as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to other persons in the railway vehicle or on the railway. (2) A person while on the railway, shall not except by written permission of the Company (a) display, affix or exhibit any printed, written or pictorial matter or any article for the purpose of advertising or publicity, or distribute any book, leaflet or other printed matter or any sample or other article; (b) sell or expose or offer for sale any article or goods whatsoever; or (c) tout, ply, or solicit alms, reward or custom or employment of any description. 22. (1) A person shall not enter or remain on or use the railway for the purpose of bookmaking or betting or wagering or agreeing to bet or wager or paying or receiving or settling bets with any other person. (2) A person playing for money or moneys worth at any game or pretended game of chance or skill upon the railway shall not continue to do so after having been requested by an authorised person to desist therefrom. 23. (1) A person shall not loiter or remain on the railway after having been requested by an authorised person to leave unless such person is lawfully entitled so to remain.

6 (2) A person other than an authorised person shall not enter, or attempt to enter, or remain on any part of any railway vehicle or railway premises, which is marked by a notice exhibited in a conspicuous position on or near such part as not being available for entry by the public. 24. A person shall not (1) spit upon the floor or in upon or against any other part of any lift or railway vehicle or railway premises or any article therein; or (2) place, drop or throw any litter in any railway vehicle or railway premises except in receptacles expressly provided for that purpose. 25. A person shall not (1) break, cut, scratch, tear, soil, deface or damage part of the railway or property on the railway including any lift or railway vehicle or any of the fittings, furniture, decorations, or equipment thereof, or any notice, advertisement, number plate, number, figure or letter therein or thereupon, or remove therefrom or detach any such article or thing; (2) remove or detach any of the fittings, furniture, decorations or equipment of any railway vehicle or railway premises or any notice, advertisement, number plate, number, figure, letter, article or thing in any railway vehicle or railway premises; (3) displace or alter any notice board, fare table, route indicator or destination board, or any printed or other notice or advertisement in any railway vehicle or railway premises; or (4) use any equipment provided for the use of passengers or intended passengers in any railway vehicle or in or upon any transport premises for any purpose other than that specified in a notice exhibited in a conspicuous position upon or near such equipment. Any person offending against this Byelaw shall be liable to the Company for the amount of the damage done to any property of the Company without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw. 26. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) a person shall not have in his possession, discharge, take or cause to be taken, or place or cause to be placed, upon the railway any weapon of any kind (whether loaded or not) or any inflammable, explosive or corrosive gas, petrol or other spirit, liquid, substance or matter, or any article or thing which is or may become dangerous to any person or property. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to (a) small quantities of spirit or liquid or gas carried by any person for his personal use and not for the purpose of trade or business, provided that all due precautions are taken for the prevention of accident or injury therefrom; (b) the carriage of explosives in accordance with any Byelaws in force at the time of such carriage and made by the Company or their predecessors and duly sanctioned under and in pursuance of the Explosives Acts (Northern Ireland) 1875 and 1924; or (c) the carriage of dangerous goods (other than explosives) in accordance with the conditions and regulations for the time being applicable to the carriage of such goods on the railway. (3) If any person contravening this Byelaw fails immediately upon request by an authorised person to remove any article or thing to which paragraph (1) applies, the same may be removed therefrom by or under the direction of an authorised person without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw. 27. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) a person shall not cause or permit to be brought into, or cause to remain in, any railway vehicle on the railway (a) any animal; (b) any bicycle, tricycle or any perambulator; (c) any trunks or other articles of luggage of a bulky nature; or

7 (d) any other article which by reason of its nature could be reasonably expected to cause, or does cause, obstruction, inconvenience or danger to any passenger or damage to property. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to (a) any guide dog accompanying a blind person; (b) any other animal securely contained in a basket or similar container which can be carried by hand; (c) any wheeled chair; or (d) any other animal or article which is brought into any railway vehicle, or any part of the railway, with the consent of an authorised person or where permitted by any ticket issued by the Company in respect of such animal or article. (3) Any animal or article referred to in paragraph (2) shall be so controlled or placed as to avoid obstruction, inconvenience or danger to any passenger or damage to property, and any consent or permit referred to in paragraph (2)(d) may at any time be withdrawn where in the opinion of an authorised person this is necessary for the prevention of obstruction or in the interests of safety. (4) Without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw, if the person in charge of any animal or article to which paragraph (1) applies fails, when requested to do so by an authorised person, immediately to remove the animal or article from the railway vehicle or, as the case may be, the part of the railway, that animal or article may be removed therefrom, by or under the direction of, an authorised person. (5) A person shall not cause or permit any animal to occupy a seat, or to become a nuisance to any passenger, in any railway vehicle or part of the railway. (6) A person shall not leave or place any animal unattended in any railway vehicle or railway otherwise than in a place expressly appointed by the Company. (7) A person in charge of an animal shall not cause or permit the animal to stand, sit, lie down or walk on any escalator or moving pavement or moving platform of any railway premises whilst the same is in motion in breach of a warning exhibited upon the escalator or moving pavement or moving platform. (8) Without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw, any animal left or placed in contravention of this Byelaw may be removed by or under the direction of an authorised person. 28. A person shall not place in the path of, throw at or from, wilfully drop on or from any lift, railway vehicle or any conveyance on the railway or railway premises, any thing which is capable of injuring, damaging or endangering any person or property or the operation of any lift, railway vehicle or conveyance. For the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under this Byelaw it shall be immaterial whether or not the defendant was on the railway at the time of the commission of the offence. 29. (1) Except in case of emergency, a person shall not park or leave any road vehicle or animal in or upon the railway (a) otherwise than in a car park or part of a car park or other place designated by means of a notice exhibited in a conspicuous position in the car park or place for the parking of vehicles of that kind, and in the manner, for the periods and at the hours specified in any such notice; (b) in any manner or place so as to cause an obstruction or hindrance to the Company or to persons using the railway; (c) otherwise than in accordance with any reasonable direction of an authorised person; (d) where parking or waiting is prohibited; or (e) in a parking bay indicated as being reserved for a disabled person s road vehicle except that the road vehicle shall be a disabled person s road vehicle. (2) Any road vehicle or animal so left or placed or parked in breach of this Byelaw may be removed by or under the direction of an authorised person, and the cost thereof shall be paid to the Company by the said driver, registered owner or person in charge of the

8 conveyance or animal without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw. 30. (1) The provisions of this Byelaw shall apply to any car park where charges for parking are levied by the Company and particulars of such charges are displayed on a notice board placed in a conspicuous position. (2) A person shall not remove or attempt to remove a road vehicle occupying a parking place from that place without the appropriate parking charge having been paid. (3) A person who parks a road vehicle in a parking place where charges are collected by means of a pay and display machine shall make payment by inserting into the machine a coin or combination of coins equivalent in value to the charge appropriate to the period of time for which he intends to park the road vehicle and he shall take delivery of the ticket which is thereupon issued by the machine. (4) A person who parks a road vehicle in a parking place described in paragraph (3), or the owner of such a road vehicle shall not permit the road vehicle to remain in a parking place longer than the period of time for which payment has been made in accordance with paragraph (3) unless a further payment is made in accordance with that paragraph. (5) A person who parks a road vehicle in a parking place described in paragraph (3) shall attach the ticket issued in accordance with paragraph (3) on the road vehicle in the following manner: (a) in the case of a road vehicle with a windscreen, on the inside surface of the windscreen so that the particulars recorded on the front of the ticket are clearly visible to a person standing at the front of the road vehicle; or (b) in the case of any other road vehicle in a conspicuous position in front of the driving seat. (6) A person who parks a road vehicle or the owner of a road vehicle parked or left in contravention of this Byelaw shall if demanded by the Company pay a charge of such appropriate amount as is prescribed by a notice erected at all vehicular entrances to the car park, and such demand and such notice shall be without prejudice to any offence committed by reason of the contravention of this Byelaw. (7) Where a road vehicle occupies a parking place where charges are collected by means of a pay and display machine and the particulars on the ticket displayed on the vehicle in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (5) indicate that the period in respect of which payment was made has expired, then for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under this Byelaw and for the purpose of demanding a charge under paragraph (6) it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that the said particulars are correct. 31. A person shall not use a parking place as a means of a passage from one road to another road. 32. In a car park where signs are erected or surface markings are laid for the purpose of indicating (1) the entrance thereto; (2) the exit therefrom; or (3) the direction in which a road vehicle is required to proceed therein; A person shall not drive a road vehicle nor cause nor permit it to be driven so that, as the case may be, the vehicle enters, leaves, or proceeds within the parking place, otherwise respectively than by the entrance or exit or in the direction so indicated. 33. Except where such facilities are expressly provided by the Company a person other than an authorised person shall not use any part of the railway or any railway vehicle or road vehicle left on the railway (1) for sleeping or camping purposes; (2) for eating or cooking purposes; or

9 (3) for the purposes of servicing or washing any road vehicle or part thereof other than is reasonably necessary to enable that road vehicle to depart from a parking place. 34. A person shall not on the railway (1) erect or cause or permit to be erected any tent, booth, stand, building or other structure without consent in writing of the Company; or (2) light or cause to be lit any fire. 35. A person other than an authorised person shall not park or leave any road vehicle on the railway, nor loiter or otherwise remain on the railway unless he (1) is a passenger or intending passenger; (2) is accompanying a passenger or intending passenger; (3) is awaiting the arrival of a passenger; or (4) has other lawful business with the Company. 36. Where, by notice exhibited at any place on or in the immediate vicinity of the railway or by notification given by an authorised person, persons wishing to make use of any service or facility provided on the railway are required to wait in a queue, every person wishing to make use of any such service or facility shall take up a position at the rear of any such queue and shall move forward in an orderly manner and shall obey the reasonable instructions of any authorised person regulating the queue. 37. A person shall not without permission in writing of the Company ride a bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle or other similar machine or bring any handcart, barrow or similar conveyance on any platform, footbridge or subway on the railway except where a handcart, barrow or similar conveyance is being used by an authorised person. 38. A person shall not occupy or use any compartment, sleeping berth or seat on a railway vehicle upon which or in relation to which notice has been fixed or given by the Company that such compartment, sleeping berth or seat is reserved, unless for the purpose of such occupation or use he holds a valid reservation ticket issued by the Company in his name, or he is a bona-fide member of a travelling party in whose name such a reservation ticket has been issued by the Company. 39. For the purposes of this Byelaw warning means any audible device, lights (whether flashing or continuously illuminated), lowered barrier, railway vehicle horn or any other device provided for the purpose of giving notice of the approach of a railway vehicle, whether or not such device is activated automatically or manually; (1) A person shall not cross or attempt to cross railway tracks at any point (whether on foot, or in a road vehicle or with animals) other than by the use of a bridge or at a level crossing which is provided for the accommodation of that person or where the railway crosses a public road or public pathway at a level crossing. (2) A person shall not loiter on any level crossing at any time. (3) A person shall not cross or attempt to cross the railway tracks at any level crossing after the commencement of any warning of the approach of a railway vehicle until such time as the railway vehicle has passed over the level crossing and the warning has ceased. 40. A person who in accordance with any of these Byelaws is refused access to any railway vehicle, lift or the railway or permission to travel shall not enter or remain therein or thereon nor travel nor attempt to do so, and any person on being required to leave any railway vehicle, lift or the railway under these Byelaws shall comply with that requirement. 41. A person while in any railway vehicle or on the railway shall not intentionally obstruct nor impede any person in the execution of his duty nor obstruct nor impede the operation of the railway.

10 42. The Byelaws made by the Company on 28 June 1971 and any Byelaw previously made in relation to the railway or any part thereof under the provisions of Sections 108 and 109 of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, Section 7 of the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, or any other provision to the same or similar effect incorporated with or contained in any enactment relating to the railway, shall, in so far as they apply to the railway, be and the same are hereby revoked without prejudice, however, to the validity of anything done thereunder or to any liability in respect of any act or omission before the date of coming into operation of these Byelaws. 43. These Byelaws shall come into operation on the thirty first day after they are confirmed by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. The Common Seal of Northern Ireland Railways Company Limited was hereunto affixed on the 6 th day of November 1986 in the presence of SEAL (Signed) Sir M. Humphreys, Chairman (Signed) R. P. Beattie, Chief Executive (Signed) C. McLeod, Company Secretary The Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland hereby confirms the foregoing Byelaws this SEAL 14 th day of November, 1986 (Signed) J. M. Irvine, Assistant Secretary