Railways Act 1905 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Management
75. Persons suffering from leprosy, etc., not allowed to travel
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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;
If any person while travelling is discovered to be so suffering, any railway official may remove him from the carriage and from the railway premises at the first opportunity, and that person may, in addition to any fine, be ordered to pay the amount of any expenses incurred in the disinfection of any carriage or portion of a carriage occupied by him while so travelling.
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.
Any such carriage or portion of a carriage shall be properly disinfected as soon as practicable, and shall not be used for the conveyance of passengers till it has been so disinfected.
Any railway company which fails to cause any such carriage to be disinfected in accordance with this section shall forfeit to the Government the sum of $20 for every day during which such default continues.
railway company
“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;