Hong Kong Regulations

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Passengers should examine tickets and change

(1) A person purchasing a ticket should examine his ticket and any change
tendered before leaving any ticket office and the Corporation shall not be
liable for any error or omission not drawn to its attention at the time of
issue of the ticket.

(2) A person using an automatic vending machine shall insert not less than the
appropriate fare in Hong Kong legal tender for the purchase of a ticket and a
person is entitled to a refund of the amount in excess of the appropriate fare
inserted into an automatic vending machine.

(2A) No person shall insert or attempt to insert into any automatic vending
machine or coin change machine any coin object or thing other than Hong Kong
legal tender in the denominations identified by notice on the machine as
suitable for use in that machine.

(3) The amount (including a nil amount) from time to time encoded on a ticket
shall be conclusive evidence of the amount paid in respect of such ticket and
of the value (if any) remaining in such ticket.

(4) Any passenger holding a concessionary ticket shall, if requested by an
official to do so, produce to that official acceptable proof of his
entitlement to a concessionary ticket. (Enacted 1986. L.N. 201 of 1994)