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Report of accidents.

Penalties

for non- compliance

with s. 26 or 29 (2).

48 of 1948, Schedule.

Compulsory

medical

examination

of person injured in railway accident.

Railways.

Accidents.

26. When any of the following accidents occurs in the working of any railway—

(a) any accident attended with loss of human life or with grievous bodily harm or with serious injury to property;

(b) any collision between trains one of which is a train

carrying passengers;

(c) the derailment of any train carrying passengers or

any part of such a train;

(d) any accident of a description usually attended with loss of life or with grievous bodily harm or with serious injury to property; or

(e) any accident of any other description which the Governor in Council may notify in this behalf in the Gazette,

the administrator shall without unnecessary delay send notice of the accident to the Colonial Secretary, and the station master nearest to the place where the accident occurred, or where there is no station master the official in charge of that part of the railway on which the accident occurred, shall give notice of the accident to the officer in charge of the nearest police station.

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27. Any station master or railway official who omits to give notice of an accident as is required by section 26 or by any rules under subsection (2) of section 29 shall upon sum- mary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.

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28. Whenever any person injured by an accident on a railway claims compensation on account of the injury, any court or person having by law or consent of the parties. authority to determine the claim may order him to be examined by a medical practitioner named in the order and not being a witness on either side, and may make any order with respect to the costs of the examination as it or he thinks fit.

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