Railway Rolling Stock Protection Act, 1872

Interpretation of terms.

2. In this Act—

Rolling stock” includes waggons, trucks, carriages of all kinds, and locomotive engines used on railways :

Rent” includes royalty or other reservation in the nature of rent:

Work” includes any colliery, quarry, mine, manufactory, warehouse, wharf, pier, or jetty, in or on which is any railway siding:

Tenant” includes a lessee, sub-lessee, or other person having an interest in a work under a lease or agreement, or by use and occupation, or being otherwise liable to pay rent in respect of a work :

Person” includes a body corporate :

Court of summary jurisdiction” means any justices of the peace, metropolitan police magistrate, stipendiary magistrate, sheriff, sheriff substitute, or other magistrate or officer, by whatever name called, who is capable of exercising jurisdiction in summary proceedings for the recovery of penalties.