Railways Act, 1890

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SECTIONS:
1. Title, extent and commencement.
2. [Repealed.]
3. Definitions.
4. [Omitted.]
5. [Omitted.]
6. [Omitted.]
7. Authority of licensee to execute all necessary works.
8. Alteration of pipes, wires and drains.
8A. Protection for Government property.
9. Temporary entry upon land for repairing or preventing accident.
10. Payment of compensation for damage caused by lawful exercise of powers under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter.
11. Accommodation works.
12. Power for owner-occupier or local authority to cause additional accommodation works to be made.
13. Fences, screens, gates and bars.
14. Over and under bridges.
15. Removal of trees dangerous to or obstructing the working of a railway.
16. [Omitted.]
17. [Omitted.]
18. [Omitted.]
19. [Omitted.]
20. [Omitted.]
21. [Omitted.]
22. [Omitted.]
23. [Omitted.]
24. [Omitted.]
25. [Omitted.]
26 TO 40. [Repealed.]
41. Bar of jurisdiction of ordinary Courts in certain matters.
42 to 44. [Omitted]
45. Terminals.
46. [Omitted.]
46A. [Omitted.]
46B. [Omitted.]
47. [Omitted.]
48 TO 51. [Omitted.]
52. [Omitted.]
53. Maximum load for wagons.
54. Power for licensee to impose conditions for working traffic.
55. Lien for rates, terminals and other charges.
56. Disposal of unclaimed things on a railway.
57. Power for licensee to require indemnity on delivery of goods in certain cases.
58. Requisitions for written accounts of description of goods.
59. Dangerous or offensive goods.
60. Exhibition to the public of authority for quoted rates.
61. Requisitions on licensee for details of gross charges.
62. Communication between passengers and railway servants in charge of trains.
63. Maximum number of passengers for each compartment.
64. Reservation compartments for females.
65. Exhibition of time-tables and tables fares at stations.
66. Supply of tickets on payment of fares.
67. Provision for case in which tickets have been issued for trains not having room available for additional passengers.
68. Prohibition against traveling with out pass or ticket.
69. Exhibition and surrender of passes and tickets.
70. Prohibition against transfer of certain tickets.
71. Power to refuse to carry persons suffering from infectious or contagious disorder.
72. Measure of the general responsibility of a licensee as a carrier of animals and goods.
73. Further provision with respect to the liability of a licensee as a carrier of animals.
74. Further provision with respect to the liability of a licensee as a carrier of luggage.
75. Further provision with respect to the liability of a licensee as a carrier of articles of special value.
76. Burden of proof in suits in respect of loss of animals or goods.
77. Notification of claims to refunds of overcharges and to compensation for losses.
78. Exoneration from responsibility in case of goods falsely described.
79. Settlement of compensation for injuries to officers, soldiers, airmen and followers on duty.
80. Suits for compensation for injury to through-booked taffic.
81. [Repealed.]
82. [Omitted.]
82A. Liability of railway adminstration in respect of accidents to trains carrying passengers.
83. Report of railway accidents.
84. Power to make rules regarding notices of and inquiries into accidents.
85. Submission of return of accidents.
86. Provision for compulsory medical examination of person injured in railway accident.
87. Penalty for default in compliance with requisition under section 13.
88. [Omitted.]
89. Penalty for not having certain documents kept or exhibited at stations under section 54 or 65.
90. [Omitted.]
91. [Omitted.]
92. Penalty for delay in submitting returns under section 52 or 85.
93. Penalty for neglect of provisions of section 53 or 63 with respect to carrying capacity of rolling-stock.
94. Penalty for failure to comply with requisition under section 62 for maintenance of means of communication between passengers and railway employee.
95. Penalty for failure to reserve compartments for females under section 64.
96. Penalty for omitting to give the notices of accidents required by section 83 and under section 84.
97. Recovery of penalties.
98. Alternative or supplementary character of remedies afforded by the foregoing provisions of this chapter.
99. Breach of duty imposed by section 60.
100. Drunkenness.
101. Endangering the safety of persons.
102. Compelling passengers to enter carriages already full.
103. Omission to give notice of accident.
104. Obstructing level-crossings.
105. False returns.
106. Giving false account of goods.
107. Unlawfully bringing dangerous or offensive goods upon a railway.
108. Needlessly interfering with means of communication in a train.
109. Entering compartment reserved or already full or resisting entry into a compartment not full.
110. Smoking.
111. Defacing public notices.
112. Fraudulently traveling or attempting to travel without proper pass or ticket.
113. Travelling without pass or ticket or with insufficient pass or ticket or beyond authorized distance.
113A. Power to remove persons from railway carriage.
114. Penalty for transfer of tickets.
115. Disposal of fines under the two last foregoing sections.
116. Altering or defacing pass or ticket.
117. Being or suffering person to travel on railway with infectious or contagious disorder.
118. Entering carriage in motion, or otherwise improperly traveling on a railway.
119. Entering carriage or other place reserved for females.
120. Drunkenness or nuisance on a railway.
121. Obstructing railway servant in his duty.
122. Trespass and refusal to desist from trespass.
123. Disobediences of omnibus drivers to directions of railway servants.
124. Opening or not properly shutting gates.
125. Cattle-trespass.
126. Maliciously wrecking or attempting to wreck a train.
127. Maliciously hurting or attempting to hurt persons travelling by railway.
128. Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by wilful act or omission.
129. Endangering safety of persons travelling by railway by rash or negligent act or omission.
130. Special provision with respect to the commission by children of acts endangering safety of persons travelling by railway.
130A. Power to detain and search in cases of suspected theft.
131. Arrest for offences against certain sections.
131A. Summary trial of certain offences.
132. Arrest of persons likely to abscond or unknown.
133. Magistrates having jurisdiction under Act.
133A. Certain Railway servants to have powers of Magistrate.
134. Place of trial.
135. Taxation of railways by local authorities.
136. Restriction on execution against railway property.
137. Railway employee to be public servants for the purposes of Chapter IX of the Pakistan Penal Code.
138. Procedure for summary delivery to railway administration of property detained by Railway servant.
139. [Repealed.]
140. Service of notices on licensee.
141. Service of notices railway licensee.
142. Presumption where notice is served by post.
143. Provisions with respect to rules.
144. [Omitted.]
145. Representation of Managers and Agents of Railways in Courts.
146. Power to extend Act to certain tramways.
147. Power to exempt railway from Act.
148. Matters supplemental to the definitions of "railway" and "railway employee".
149. [Repealed.]
150. [Repealed.]







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