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The Railways Act, 1890

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First Schedule 1 [147. Power to exempt the railway from the operation of the provisions of the Act.— The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, exempt the railway from the operation of any of the provisions of the Act.] 148. Matters supplemental to the definitions of “the railway” and “the railway servant”.— (1) For the purposes of section 3, clauses (5), (6) and (7), and sections 4 to 19 (both inclusive), 47 to 52 (both inclusive), 59, 79, 83 to 92 (both inclusive), 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 107, 111, 122, 124 to 132 (both inclusive), 134 to 138 (both inclusive), 140, 141, 144, 145, and 147, the word the railway, whether it occurs alone or as a prefix to another word, has reference to the railway or portion of the railway under construction and to the railway or portion of the railway not used for the public carriage of passengers, animals or goods as well as to the railway falling within the definition of that word in section 3, clause (4). (2) For the purposes of sections 5, 21, 83, 100, 101, 103, 104, 121, 122, 125 and 138, the expression “the railway servant” includes a person employed upon the railway in connection with the service thereof by a person fulfilling a contract with the railway administration. 149. [Repealed by section 2 and Schedule of the Repealing Act, 1938 (Act No. I of 1938).] 150. [Repealed by section 2 and Schedule of the Repealing Act, 1938 (Act No. I of 1938).] THE FIRST SCHEDULE. [Repealed by section 2 and Schedule of the repealing Act, 1938 (Act No. I of 1938).]

  1. 1 Section 147 was substituted, for section 147 by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

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