1810
No. 21 of 1909.
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
Penalty for opening or not properly shutting gates or chains.
Penalty for drunkenness or breach of duty by railway official.
**RAILWAYS.**
provided with suitable fences for excluding cattle) shall be liable on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding 5 dollars for each animal, and it shall be lawful for any railway official to take or drive every animal which shall be found so trespassing to the nearest police station there to be detained until the highest amount of penalty incurred by such trespass and the expense of feeding and keeping the animal be paid, or until a Magistrate shall otherwise order. Should the animal prove unmanageable it shall be lawful for any railway official to kill it and the owner shall be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass be proved. A Magistrate may upon proof of the trespass cause such animal to be sold by public auction and the proceeds of the sale, after deducting therefrom such fine as the Magistrate shall award, and such further sum as the Magistrate shall order to be paid for the expenses of detaining, feeding, and selling such animal, shall be returned to the owner of the animal on demand.
56. Any person who unlawfully and wilfully removes or defaces any number-plate, or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway, or who wilfully imitates any railway signal, or wilfully or negligently damages or injures any carriage, engine, wagon, truck, station, warehouse, bridge, building, machine, rail points, fence, or any other matter or thing belonging to the railway, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
57. If any person for whose use or accommodation any gate or chain has been set up by any railway official on either side of the railway, or if any other person, opens such gate or chain or passes or attempts to pass or drives or attempts to drive any cattle, carriage, or other animal or thing across the railway at a time when any engine or train approaching along the same is in sight, or at any time omits to shut and fasten such gate or chain as soon as he and any cattle, carriage, or other animal or thing under his charge have passed through the same, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.
58. Any railway official who shall be in a state of intoxication or under the influence of opium, compound of opium, morphine or any other narcotic, whilst actually employed upon the railway or any ...
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
1810
No. 21 of 1909.
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
*
Penalty for opening or not properly shutting gabes or chains.
*
Penalty for drunkenness or breach of duty by rail way official.
**
RAILWAYS.
provided with suitable fences for excluding cattle) shall be liable on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding 5 dollars for each animal, and it shall be lawful for any railway official to take or drive every animal which shall be found so trespassing to the nearest police station there to be detained until the highest amount of penalty incurred by such trespass and the expense of feeding and keeping the animal be paid, or until a Magistrate shall otherwise order. Should the animal prove unmanageable it shall be lawful for any railway official to kill it and the owner shall be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass be proved. A Magistrate may upon proof of the trespass cause such animal to be sold by public auction and the proceeds of the sale, after deducting therefrom such fine as the Magistrate shall award, and such further sum as the Magistrate shall order to be paid for the expenses of detaining, feeding, and selling such animal, shall be returned to the owner of the animal on demand.
56. Any person who unlawfully and wilfully removes or defaces. any number-plate, or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway, or who wilfully imitates any railway signal, or wilfully or negligently damages or injures any carriage, engine, wagon, truck, station, warehouse, bridge, building, machine, rail points, fence, or any other matter or thing belonging to the railway, shall be liable, on summary con- viction, to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
57. If any person for whose use or accommodation any gate or chain has been set up by any railway official on either side of the railway, or if any other person, opens such gate or chain or passes or attempts to pass or drives or attempts to drive any cattle, carriage, or other animal or thing across the railway at a time when any engine or train approaching along the same is in sight, or at any time omits to shut and fasten such gate or chain as soon as he and any cattle, carriage, or other animal or thing under his charge have passed through the same, he shall be liable, on summary con- viction, to a fine not exceeding 50 dollars.
58. Any railway official who shall be in a state of intoxication or under the influence of opium, compound of opium, morphine or any other narcotic, whilst actually employed upon the railway or any
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 12 of 1912 and No. 13 of 1912.
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