(1) Every railway
shall be made only under the authority of a special Act which shall state as
nearly as may be the line of the railway and the 2 termini thereof; but it
shall be lawful to deviate from such line at a distance of 1.6 km on either
side thereof, or such other distance as may be provided in any special Act.
(2) Before the second
reading of the special Act in the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly
respectively, the Minister shall cause a map, to be referred to in the special
Act, showing the course to be taken by, and the middle line of, the railway,
to be laid upon the table of the House.
(3) On the passing of
the Act, the map, signed for the purpose of identification by the Clerk of the
Parliaments, shall be deposited by the Clerk of the Parliaments in the Central
Office of the Supreme Court, and shall be open to public inspection at any
reasonable hour free of charge, and shall be admitted in all courts for all
purposes as evidence of the line authorised by the special Act.
[Section 96 amended: No. 94 of 1972 s. 4 (as
amended: No. 19 of 1973 s. 3); No. 67 of 1979 s. 38; No. 4 of 2023 s. 101.]
[ 97, 98. Deleted: No. 31 of 1997 s. 52.]