Offences by railway employees
51 Offences by railway employees
If any person employed upon a railway —
is found drunk, or under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of any drug, while on duty; or
is guilty of any breach or neglect of duty which has caused or might have caused personal injury to any person, or whereby the passage of any locomotive, carriage, wagon, or train has been or might have been obstructed, or impeded,
any other person employed upon the railway, and all such persons as he may call to his assistance, may seize and detain such person so offending, or any person counselling, aiding, or assisting in such offence, and convey him before a police officer, without any other warrant or authority than this Act, to be dealt with according to law.
Every person so offending and every person counselling, aiding, or assisting therein shall, upon summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $200.
[Section 51 amended: No. 55 of 1960 s. 13; No. 51 of 1992 s. 16(1); No. 50 of 2003 s. 68(3); No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]
[52. Deleted: No. 31 of 2003 s. 117.]
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