Railways Act 1905 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Legal Proceedings
35. Provisions as to railway employees
Feedback & supportEvery railway employee shall be deemed to be a public servant for the purpose of Chapter 9 of the Penal Code 1871.
railway employee
“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;
In section 161 of the Penal Code 1871, “Government” shall for the purpose of subsection (1) be deemed to include a railway administration.
railway administration
“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;
Notwithstanding anything in section 21 of the Penal Code 1871, a railway employee shall not be deemed to be a public servant for any of the purposes of that Code except those mentioned in subsection (1).
In this section, “railway employee” includes any person who, having been appointed to serve in the railway police force of Malaysia, is actually serving in that capacity in Singapore.
railway
“railway” means a railway or any portion of a railway for the public carriage of passengers, animals or goods and includes —(a)all land within the fences or other boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a railway;(b)all lines of rails, sidings or branches worked over for the purposes of or in connection with a railway;(c)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;(d)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;(e)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;(f)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(g)all aircraft used by or on behalf of or under contract with a railway administration for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, goods and livestock;