In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(1)

“authorised” means authorised by a railway administration;

(1A)

“Authority” means the Rail Land Development Authority constituted under section 4A;

(2)

“carriage” means the carriage of passengers or goods by a railway administration;

(3)

“Claims Tribunal” means the Railway Claims Tribunal established under section 3 of the Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 (54 of 1987);

(4)

“classification” means the classification of commodities made under section 31 for the purpose of determining the rates to be charged for carriage of such commodities;

(5)

“class rates” means the rate fixed for a class of commodity in the classification;

(6)

“Commissioner” means the Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety or the Commissioner of Railway Safety appointed under section 5;

(7)

“commodity” means a specific item of goods;

(7A)

“competent authority” means any person authorised by the Central Government, by notification, to perform the functions of the competent authority for such area as may be specified in the notification;

(8)

“consignee” means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt;

(9)

“consignment” means goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;

(10)

“consignor” means the person, named in a railway receipt as consignor, by whom or on whose behalf goods covered by the railway receipt are entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;

(11)

“demurrage” means the charge levied for the detention of any rolling stock after the expiry of free time, if any, allowed for such detention;

(12)

“endorsee” means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made;

(13)

“endorsement” means the signing by the consignee or the endorsee after adding a direction on a railway receipt to pass the property in the goods mentioned in such receipt to a specified person;

(14)

“fare” means the charge levied for the carriage of passengers;

(15)

“ferry” includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches to, and landing places of, a ferry;

(16)

“forwarding note” means the document executed under section 64;

(17)

“freight” means the charge levied for the carriage of goods including transhipment charges, if any;

(18)

“General Manager” means the General Manager of a Zonal Railway appointed under section 4;

(19)

“goods” includes—

(20)

“Government railway” means a railway owned by the Central Government;

(21)

“in transit”, in relation to the carriage of goods by railway, means the period between the commencement and the termination of transit of such goods, and unless otherwise previously determined—

(22)

“level crossing” means an inter-section of a road with lines of rails at the same level;

(23)

“luggage” means the goods of a passenger either carried by him in his charge or entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;

(24)

“lump sum rate” means the rate mutually agreed upon between a railway administration and a consignor for the carriage of goods and for any service in relation to such carriage;

(25)

“non-Government railway” means a railway other than a Government railway;

(26)

“notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette;

(26A)

“officer authorised” means an officer authorised by the Central Government under sub-section (2) of section 179;

(27)

“parcel” means goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage by a passenger or a parcel train;

(28)

“pass” means an authority given by the Central Government or a railway administration to a person allowing him to travel as a passenger, but does not include a ticket;

(29)

“passenger” means a person travelling with a valid pass or ticket;

(29A)

“person interested” includes,—

(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—

(32)

“railway administration”, in relation to—

(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 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;

(37)

“rolling stock” includes locomotives, lenders, carriages, wagons, rail-cars, containers, trucks, trolleys and vehicles of all kinds moving on rails;

(37A)

“special railway project” means a project notified as such by the Central Government from time to time, for providing national infrastructure for a public purpose in a specified time-frame, covering one or more States or the Union territories;

(38)

“station to station rate” means a special reduced rate applicable to a specific commodity booked between specified stations;

(39)

“traffic” includes rolling stock of every description, as well as passengers and goods;

(40)

“Tribunal” means the Railway Rates Tribunal constituted under section 33;

(41)

“wharfage” means the charge levied on goods for not removing them from the railway after the expiry of the free time for such removal;

(42)

“Zonal Railway” means a Zonal Railway constituted under section 3.