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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. Every person who-
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
(1) unlawfully and wilfully removes number-plate, or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway; or
(2) wilfully imitates any railway signal; or
(3) 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 upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
57. Every person for whose use or accommodation any gate or chain has been set up by any railway official on either side of the railway, and every other person, who opens or improperly shuts 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, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
Penalty for opening or improperly shutting gate or chain.
58. Every railway official who-
Penalty for drunkenness or breach of duty by railway official.
(1) is 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 of the works connected therewith in the discharge of any duty; or
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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RAILWAYS.
No. 21 of 1909.
1787
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 magis- trate 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. Every person who-
or defaces any
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
(1) unlawfully and wilfully removes number-plate, or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway; or
(2) wilfully imitates any railway signal; or
(3) 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 upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
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opening or
chains.
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57. Every person for whose use or accommodation any Penalty for gate or chain has been set up by any railway official on opt properly either side of the railway, and every other person, who opens shutting such gate or chain or passes or attempts to pass or drives tesor 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, shall upon summary con- viction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
58. Every railway official who--
Penalty for drunkenness
(1) is in a state of intoxication or under the influence of or breach of duty by rail- opium, compound of opium, morphine or any other narcotic, way official. whilst actually employed upon the railway or any of the works connected therewith in the discharge of any duty; or
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* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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