John B wrote:

This is clear because rail companies need to use a specific Act of
Parliament to issue penalty fares, and can't raise the fares or vary
the conditions without having the law changed - indeed, TfL is
currently promoting an Act of Parliament to raise the PFs on its
services and vary some of the conditions.

Er... that already happened.

That was the reason why I started this thread back on the 11th Oct...

http://www.tfl.gov.uk:80/corporate/m...tre/10025.aspx

Paul