Singapore legislation

Section 2

of Singapore Railway Transfer Ordinance 1918

Section 2

Vesting of the Singapore Railway in the Chief Secretary, Federation of Malaya

The railway known as the Singapore Railway whereof the terminal stations are situated at Pasir Panjang and at Woodlands, respectively, together with —

(a)

all lands delineated and coloured pink on a plan deposited in the Colonial Secretary’s office dated 18 March 1913, and signed by R. H. Young, Chief Surveyor, and described thereon as “Singapore Railway Lands”;

(b)

all lines of rail, bridges, sidings, fencing, retaining walls, stations, offices, residences, quarters, coolie-lines, warehouses, stores, engine sheds, carriage sheds, workshops, plant, machinery, telegraph and telephone lines, wharves, landing-stages, and other buildings and works constructed or used for the purposes of or in connection with the said Singapore Railway;

(c)

all ships, wagon-ferry-boats and other boats and craft, engines, passenger coaches, wagons and other rolling stock which were on the 31 December 1912, the property of the Colony and used or maintained for the purposes of or in connection with the said Singapore Railway; and

(d)

the cable across the Johore Straits which was laid for railway purposes exclusively,are hereby vested, free from encumbrances, in the Chief Secretary, Federation of Malaya, absolutely.

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