15 year old got a penalty fare from Metro / IRCAS

retired2011

Let it go to court and claim for the extra ticket your daughter had to buy as well.

Since when did we have to carry ID to buy a train ticket?

Stigy

It won't go to Court anyway if they have any sense. Contact the Metro people or whoever they are and bypass IRCAS. There's only so much that can be done to prove a 15-year o;ld's age, and the only downside is that a Birth Certificate obviously had no photo.

I'd consider getting a school head teacher or GP to write a note to back you up.

It is generally up to the person to be able to prove they're travelling legally, but in this instance, no law has clearly been broken, so it WONT go to court, especially given that she is a minor. What date of Birth did the RPI list? seems bizar that he states the reason for the notice was that she was an adult, yet the only DOB is her actual one!

sharnad

If she looks over 14 she will pay adult fare its the rules

Livingthedream

sharnad wrote: »

If she looks over 14 she will pay adult fare its the rules

Not wanting to come across as arrogant or pompous, sic, but where are those rules written down, because the rules I quoted in post #10 state 5 - 15 years travel at child rates.

somethingcorporate

sharnad wrote: »

If she looks over 14 she will pay adult fare its the rules

Haha, what a silly thing to say!

It's not done on how old you look, it's how old you ARE that matters.

Stigy

sharnad wrote: »

If she looks over 14 she will pay adult fare its the rules

Their own rules maybe, but not the law...

[Deleted User]

You can't buy age restricted products in a shop when you are 20 odd without proving you are old enough. Yet on public transport you can't travel unless you can prove you are young enough.

Weird....

ppc_guy

Hang on.. just a thing from the private parking forums where i more frequent. Does this not constitute a private company issuing a penalty?

Jeff_Bridges_hair

ppc_guy wrote: »

Hang on.. just a thing from the private parking forums where i more frequent. Does this not constitute a private company issuing a penalty?

No. . These are issued under legally binding bylaws.

Totally wrong in this instance but is completely different from PPC issued invoices.

Stigy

Deleted_User wrote: »

You can't buy age restricted products in a shop when you are 20 odd without proving you are old enough. Yet on public transport you can't travel unless you can prove you are young enough.

Weird....

It is up to the youngster to be able to prove their entitlement to a child fare, however, you're on a sticky wicket if you're an RPI and refuse travel or issue a PFN etc on this basis, unless they prove them to be older, especially given that duty of care would be for a person of under 16 years of age.