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The Railways Act, 1890

Second ScheduleARTICLES TO BE DECLARED AND INSURED

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Second Schedule

THE SECOND SCHEDULE ARTICLES TO BE DECLARED AND INSURED (See section 75) (a) gold and silver, coined or uncoined, manufactured or unmanufactured; (b) plated articles; (c) cloths and tissue and lace of which gold or silver forms part, not being the uniform or part of the uniform of an officer, soldier, sailor, police-officer or person enrolled as a volunteer under 1 [any law for the time being in force], or of any public officer, 2 [* * *] entitled to wear uniform; (d) pearls, precious stones, jewellery and trinkets; (e) watches, clocks and timepieces of any description; (f) Government securities; (g) Government stamps; (h) bills of exchange, hundis, promissory-notes, bank-notes, and orders or other securities for payment of money; (i) maps, writings and title-deeds; (j) paintings, engravings, lithographs, photographs, carvings, sculpture and other works of art; (k) art pottery and all articles made of glass, china or marble; (l) silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials; (m) | shawls; (n) | lace and furs; (o) | opium; (p) | ivory, ebony, coral and sandalwood; (q) | musk, sandalwood -oil and other essential oils used in the preparation of itr or other perfume; (r) | musical and scientific instruments; Mercury (Quick Silver); (s) | any article of special value which the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, add to this schedule. _________

  1. 1 The words “any law for the time being in force” were substituted, for the words, comma and figure “the Indian Volunteers Act, 1869” by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
  2. 2 The words and comma “Pakistan or foreign,” were omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).

End of Second Schedule.

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