Boarding pass legal document?

[TazzieD]

Hi
As I was boarding my weekly BNE-SYD flight the lovely lady who boarded me told me that my boarding pass which was printed double sided was a legal document and that it should not be printed like that. Is that right? Wondering how after 10 years of flying nearly every week I get told this???
Thanks!

 

[Mal]

Legal document ... Lmao.

I suspect they didn't like the extra work involved.

 

[SeatBackForward]

If it were a legal document, I would hope that the airlines start asking for correct photo ID when issuing them.

 

[AdMEL]

Even if it is a legal document, as far as I am aware, there is nothing in the law which prohibits printing double sided - in fact, it is encouraged now, for both environmental and cost reasons.

 

[maninblack]

Hi
As I was boarding my weekly BNE-SYD flight the lovely lady who boarded me told me that my boarding pass which was printed double sided was a legal document and that it should not be printed like that. Is that right? Wondering how after 10 years of flying nearly every week I get told this???
Thanks!

It is in a sense, though it could be argued that your e-ticket is a legal document, not your boarding pass. A bus ticket or a an entry ticket to a concert and so on are 'legal documents' of a kind. Why didn't they issue you a new one if they were so worried about the legal status being compromised.

 

[moa999]

Nothing saying legal documents can't be printed double sided, or even 4 to a page.

BTW the Qantas scanners still work with a 4-page size barcode !

 

[medhead]

Every document is potentially a legal one. Wonder how they feel about me only printing the first page?

 

[Milboo]

Even the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (which relate to the technical side of civil proceedings before the Courts) allow for double sided printing! You just can't mix double and single sided and you still need 3mm spacing between lines...

 

[samh004]

Every document is potentially a legal one. Wonder how they feel about me only printing the first page?

When I used to print I'd always ignore the other x pages of bag and other rules, to think, I could have got in trouble according to this one person for that