Hong Kong Regulations

NORTH-WEST RAILWAY BY-LAWS - BYLAW 5

Tickets contain no warranty or acceptance of liability

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) The Corporation does not warrant that a passenger will be conveyed on any
particular bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway or that any bus or vehicle
of the North-west Railway shall arrive or depart at a particular time or stop
or that the issue of a ticket will be completed before the departure of any
bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway and the Corporation will not be
liable to any person for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from any delay
or detention caused by the alteration suspension interference with or
withdrawal of the Corporation's bus or railway services (or a part thereof)
for any reason whatsoever.

(2) The Corporation may in its absolute discretion do all or any of the
following without being liable to any person for any loss or damage caused
thereby-

   (a)  suspend or discontinue the issue of tickets howsoever issued;

   (b)  despatch any bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway from a stop
        before the arrival of any other bus or vehicle of the North-west
        Railway without affording passengers an opportunity of alighting and
        boarding the bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway;

   (c)  suspend, discontinue or otherwise withdraw all or any bus or railway
        service from any stop at any time and for any period of time or
        suspend, discontinue or withdraw the running of any bus or vehicle of
        the North-west Railway at any time and for any period of time and
        alter the times of departure and arrival of any bus or vehicle of the
        North-west Railway and the routes thereof.

(3) The Corporation may in its absolute discretion consider applications for a
refund where a ticket is unused as a consequence of the circumstances
described in by-law 5(2). (Enacted 1987)