Singapore legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
(1)
In this Act and in any rules made thereunder, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —
Definition
“assistant manager” means an assistant to the general manager or manager of a railway;
Definition
“manager” means the person appointed by the Government or by the government of Malaysia, or by a railway company, as the case may be, to act as general manager or manager of a railway;
Definition
“passengers’ luggage” means all such articles as a passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the class to which he belongs, with reference to either the immediate necessities or the ultimate purpose of the journey, but does not, except in the case of commercial travellers, include any articles carried for purposes of business, trade or profit;
Definition
“railway” means a railway or any portion of a railway for the public carriage of passengers, animals or goods and includes —
all land within the fences or other boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a railway;
all lines of rails, sidings or branches worked over for the purposes of or in connection with a railway;
all stations, offices, warehouses, wharves, workshops, manufactories, fixed plant and machinery, and other works constructed for the purposes of or in connection with a railway;
all ferries, ships, boats and craft which are used for the traffic of a railway and belong to or are hired or worked by the authority administering the railway;
all engines, passenger coaches, and goods and livestock vehicles, or other rolling stock used for the purpose of carrying on the traffic of the railway;
all road vehicles used by or on behalf of or under contract with a railway administration for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, goods, livestock and vehicles; and
all aircraft used by or on behalf of or under contract with a railway administration for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, goods and livestock;
Definition
“railway administration”, in the case of a railway administered by the Government or the government of Malaysia, means the manager and includes the Government and also, so long as the railway is in the course of construction, the resident engineer, and, in the case of a railway administered by a railway company, means the railway company;
Definition
“railway company” includes any person or persons, whether incorporated or not, who are owners or lessees of a railway or parties to an agreement for working a railway, but shall not include the government of Malaysia;
Definition
“railway employee” includes the manager, the assistant managers, and all such officers, employees, agents and other persons as are employed to do any act upon a railway;
Definition
“railway official” includes all persons employed by or on behalf of the railway administration to perform any function in connection with a railway.
(2)
All duties and powers hereinafter required to be performed and exercised by the manager shall and may be performed and exercised by an assistant manager.