Hong Kong Regulations

MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY BY-LAWS - BYLAW 14

Entry and travel prohibited without ticket

No person shall, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse-

   (a)  enter or leave, or attempt to enter or leave, the paid area; or

   (b)  travel or attempt to travel upon any part of the railway, without
        first paying his fare and obtaining a valid ticket appropriate to the
        circumstances of his intended journey and using that ticket by
        inserting it into an automatic gate or by using it in an appropriate
        manner over the electronic sensor of an automatic gate as may be
        required by the conditions of issue of such ticket on entering or
        leaving the paid  area or otherwise producing it and delivering it up
        to an official. (Enacted 1986. L.N. 201 of 1994)