Transport Act, 1944

Chapter II.

Railway Charges and Conditions of Carriage by Rail Applicable to the Company.

Continuance of railway classification of merchandise applicable to the dissolved railway company and of maximum railway charges of the dissolved railway company.

70.—(1) Subject to this Chapter—

(a) the classification of merchandise as determined by the railway tribunal under Part III of the Railways Act, 1924 (No. 29 of 1924), shall apply to the Company as it applied to the dissolved railway company;

(b) the charges laid down in the Great Southern Railways Company's Schedule of Standard Charges ( S. R. & 0., No. 5 of 1930 ), as modified by Statutory Rule and Order No. 56 of 1930 and Statutory Rule and Order No. 319 of 1937, subject, in the case of damageable merchandise carried under owner's risk conditions, to the reductions to be made from standard charges as determined by Statutory Rule and Order No. 14 of 1930, as modified by Statutory Rule and Order No. 1 of 1932, shall apply to the Company as they applied to the dissolved railway company;

(c) the charges referred to in paragraph (b) of this section shall be the maximum charges which the Company shall be entitled to make for all services in respect of which the said charges are fixed.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall cease to be in force as on and from the date on which the revised schedule of maximum railway charges of the Company comes into operation.