Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Ins. by Act 11 of 2008, s. 2 (w.e.f. 31-1-2008). 11 (iii) a person interested in an easement affecting the land; and (iv) persons having tenancy rights under the relevant State laws;] (30) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (31) “railway” means a railway, or any portion of a railway, for the public carriage of passengers or goods, and includes— (a) all lands within the fences or other boundary marks indicating the limits of the land appurtenant to a railway; (b) all lines of rails, sidings, or yards, or branches used for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway; (c) all electric traction equipments, power supply and distribution installations used for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway; (d) all rolling stock, stations, offices, warehouses, wharves, workshops, manufactories, fixed plant and machinery, roads and streets, running rooms, rest houses, institutes, hospitals, water works and water supply installations, staff dwellings and any other works constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with, railway; (e) all vehicles which are used on any road for the purposes of traffic of a railway and owned, hired or worked by a railway; and (f) all ferries, ships, boats and rafts which are used on any canal, river, lake or other navigable inland waters for the purposes of the traffic of a railway and owned, hired or worked by a railway administration, but does not include— (i) a tramway wholly within a municipal area; and (ii) lines of rails built in any exhibition ground, fair, park, or any other place solely for the purpose of recreation; (32) “railway administration”, in relation to— (a) a Government railway, means the General Manager of a Zonal Railway; and (b) a non-Government railway, means the person who is the owner or lessee of the railway or the person working the railway under an agreement; 1[(32A) “railway land” means any land in which a Government railway has any right, title or interest;] (33) “railway receipt” means the receipt issued under section 65; (34) “railway servant” means any person employed by the Central Government or by a railway administration in connection with the service of a railway 2[including member of the Railway Protection Force appointed under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957 (23 of 1957)]; (35) “rate” includes any fare, freight or any other charge for the carriage of any passenger or goods; (36) “regulations” means the regulations made by the Railway Rates Tribunal under this Act;