Railways Act 1905 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Management
74. Carriage of goods of a dangerous nature
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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;
Any person who carries upon the railway any dangerous article, or delivers for carriage any such article without distinctly declaring the nature of the article, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200 for every such offence.
Any railway official may refuse to carry any luggage or parcel that is suspected to contain articles of a dangerous nature, and may require the luggage or parcel to be opened.
railway official
“railway official” includes all persons employed by or on behalf of the railway administration to perform any function in connection with a railway.
In case any such luggage or parcel has been received by any railway official for the purpose of being carried on the railway, any railway official may stop the transit thereof until he is satisfied as to the nature of the contents of the luggage or parcel.